Expensive fender bender

George,
Most tugs do not have rear view mirrors because they are so open and you
are usually pushing a plane so you are facing it. It is one more thing
that will get broken.

Michelle

G.R. Patterson III wrote:

Bob Chilcoat wrote:


A tug
operator was pulling a Lear Jet out of the hangar onto the ramp, which was a
sheet of ice. He had a hooded parka on, and couldn't see behind him.



Wonder why the tug didn't have a rear-view mirror.

George Patterson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you look forward to the trip.



--

Michelle P ATP-ASEL, CP-AMEL, and AMT-A&P

"Elisabeth" a Maule M-7-235B (no two are alike)

Volunteer Pilot, Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic

Volunteer Builder, Habitat for Humanity

Michelle P wrote in
nk.net:

George,
Most tugs do not have rear view mirrors because they are so open and
you are usually pushing a plane so you are facing it. It is one more
thing that will get broken.

Heck with *rear* view mirrors, you are right about pushing a plane!

Friend of mine, couple of years ago, was in the runup area of a towered
airport, in her Cessna 172. Brakes locked, doing the runup ... WHAM.
Whole plane is shoved sideways and forward. After a moment to start
breathing again, she shuts down.

Turns out a construction forklift with a whopping big load of steel in the
forks had tried to take a shortcut. He had NO forward view, and had run
into the right rear of the plane. Amazing what damage a ton of steel can
do to an aluminum spam can. She was NOT a happy camper.

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"James M. Knox" wrote:

a construction forklift with a whopping big
load of steel in the forks had tried to take
a shortcut.

Saw a rental 172 at a local airport with the tip of one wing in shreds. Was
told the garbage truck, making its weekly pick-up on the field, got too close
and sheered the tip of the wing off, then the driver said that the *plane*
wasn't where he expected it to be. I guess!
:-)

Saw a rental 172 at a local airport with the tip of one wing in
shreds. Was told the garbage truck, making its weekly pick-up on the
field, got too close and sheered the tip of the wing off, then the
driver said that the *plane* wasn't where he expected it to be. I
guess! :-)


Wasn't it in plane sight?

"Shirley" wrote in message ...
"James M. Knox" wrote:

a construction forklift with a whopping big
load of steel in the forks had tried to take
a shortcut.

Saw a rental 172 at a local airport with the tip of one wing in shreds. Was
told the garbage truck, making its weekly pick-up on the field, got too close
and sheered the tip of the wing off, then the driver said that the *plane*
wasn't where he expected it to be. I guess!

One day I came out to HEF for an early morning rental and there was carnage
on the ramp. Oddly it was confined to the portion of the ramp closest to
the fence...obviously not someone who crashed off the runway or something.
Turns out a bunch of guys got liquored up (owing to the large amount of empties
found in and around) and got into a King Air and managed to get one engine
fired up. The thing taxied around in a circle chewing up a number of planes.
It's amazing what a prop will do the side of a Lance.

Of course, a renter taxied my Navion into a Comanche once (he was trying to
avoid hitting a Lear, I guess that almost makes sense). The tip tank rode up
and over the cowling of the Comanche, making a tip tank shaped grove in the
cowling. My plane would have escaped damage entirely if the prop on the
piper had been horizontal. It cut a little notch in the leading edge of my wing
just inboard of the tip tank.

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Ron Natalie wrote:


"Shirley" wrote in message ...
"James M. Knox" wrote:

a construction forklift with a whopping big
load of steel in the forks had tried to take
a shortcut.

Saw a rental 172 at a local airport with the tip of one wing in shreds. Was
told the garbage truck, making its weekly pick-up on the field, got too close
and sheered the tip of the wing off, then the driver said that the *plane*
wasn't where he expected it to be. I guess!

One day I came out to HEF for an early morning rental and there was carnage
on the ramp. Oddly it was confined to the portion of the ramp closest to
the fence...obviously not someone who crashed off the runway or something.
Turns out a bunch of guys got liquored up (owing to the large amount of empties
found in and around) and got into a King Air and managed to get one engine
fired up. The thing taxied around in a circle chewing up a number of planes.
It's amazing what a prop will do the side of a Lance.

Of course, a renter taxied my Navion into a Comanche once (he was trying to
avoid hitting a Lear, I guess that almost makes sense). The tip tank rode up
and over the cowling of the Comanche, making a tip tank shaped grove in the
cowling. My plane would have escaped damage entirely if the prop on the
piper had been horizontal. It cut a little notch in the leading edge of my wing
just inboard of the tip tank.



Ron, you need to get a new plane. Waaaay too much bad karma surrounding
that Navion!

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Rick/JYO
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"Rick Glasser" wrote in message ogz.net...
Ron, you need to get a new plane. Waaaay too much bad karma surrounding
that Navion!

It takes a licking and keeps on ticking. However, it's going to be a completely
different experience when I get it back. Engine with 9 hours since factory new,
large amounts of the airframe replaced new (a whole warehouse full of factory
Navion parts just because available last year), new panel, new radios, new interior,
new paint.

Ron Natalie wrote:

However, it's going to be a completely different experience when I get it back.

And what's the ETA now?

George Patterson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you look forward to the trip.

"James M. Knox" wrote in message ...
Turns out a construction forklift with a whopping big load of steel in the
forks had tried to take a shortcut. He had NO forward view, and had run
into the right rear of the plane. Amazing what damage a ton of steel can
do to an aluminum spam can. She was NOT a happy camper.

Should get him a copy of Staplerfahrer Klaus to watch.