Jet crashes through fence onto Las Vegas street

[Owen[_4_]]

Ok, perhaps "crashes" isn't the best word, but someone forgot the
chocks! Yikes. Expensive mistake. Maybe it was just trying to pick up
some high rollers at the MGM for the trip home.....



"A small passenger jet knocked down a fence at McCarran International
Airport and poked its nose several feet into Tropicana Avenue on
Wednesday night, causing at least one fender bender and forcing the
street's closure from Koval Lane to Paradise Road for about five hours.

The unoccupied plane struck the fence about 6:45 p.m.
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Linda Healey, a spokeswoman for McCarran, said officials didn't know
what caused the Dassault Falcon 900 EX to go through the fence. The
plane had been parked on the tarmac before it moved toward the street,
Healey said."

Las Vegas Review Journal full story
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Sep-21-Thu-2006/news/9785469.html

[A Guy Called Tyketto]

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Owen > wrote:
> Ok, perhaps "crashes" isn't the best word, but someone forgot the
> chocks! Yikes. Expensive mistake. Maybe it was just trying to pick up
> some high rollers at the MGM for the trip home.....
>
> "A small passenger jet knocked down a fence at McCarran International
> Airport and poked its nose several feet into Tropicana Avenue on
> Wednesday night, causing at least one fender bender and forcing the
> street's closure from Koval Lane to Paradise Road for about five hours.
>
> The unoccupied plane struck the fence about 6:45 p.m.
>
> Linda Healey, a spokeswoman for McCarran, said officials didn't know
> what caused the Dassault Falcon 900 EX to go through the fence. The
> plane had been parked on the tarmac before it moved toward the street,
> Healey said."

The local Ch. 8 newsstation here reported that it was the wind
that did it. Basically, the Falcon was parked, but not secured or tied
down, for lack of a better word. The wind pushed it out towards
Tropicana Ave. and Koval Lane, and caused a 3 car fender bender.

www.klastv.com or www.lasvegasnow.com have the story on the
wind being a factor.

BL.
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[Denny]

While technically the PIC is responsible for securing the aircraft the
reality is that at jet ports the lineboys remove and park the aircraft
after everyone exits on the red carpet... The lineboys would be
respnsible for chocking the wheels after moving it...

denny

[Robert M. Gary]

Denny wrote:
> While technically the PIC is responsible for securing the aircraft

Once you walk away from it, its someone else's responsibility (unless
you own it)

-Robert

[Jose[_1_]]

> Once you walk away from it, its someone else's responsibility...

Doesn't it take a bit more than "walking away from it" to transfer
responsibility to another?

Jose
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[Judah]

"Robert M. Gary" > wrote in news:1158985003.272206.294420
@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

>
> Denny wrote:
>> While technically the PIC is responsible for securing the aircraft
>
> Once you walk away from it, its someone else's responsibility (unless
> you own it)
>
> -Robert

So if I leave the engine running in a rented plane and walk away it's someone
else's responsibility if the plane takes off and kills someone?

[Emily[_1_]]

Judah wrote:
> "Robert M. Gary" > wrote in news:1158985003.272206.294420
> @h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:
>
>> Denny wrote:
>>> While technically the PIC is responsible for securing the aircraft
>> Once you walk away from it, its someone else's responsibility (unless
>> you own it)
>>
>> -Robert
>
> So if I leave the engine running in a rented plane and walk away it's someone
> else's responsibility if the plane takes off and kills someone?

If the engine is running, the plane is not secure.

[Jose[_1_]]

> If the engine is running, the plane is not secure.

It can be argued that the jet with the engine off that rolled into the
highway was not secure either.

Jose
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it keeps its brain." (chapter 10 of book 3 - Harry Potter).
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