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Boeing 747 Freighter Tips Over Backwards After Being Improperly Unloaded in Qatar

提交時間：大約一年之前

Consider it a lesson in why you should always, always read the manual: A Boeing 747 freighter aircraft got tail-happy in an unexpected way at Qatar's Doha International Airport, when a weight imbalance reportedly brought about by improper unloading procedures caused it to tip backwards onto its tail and thrust the nose of the jumbo jet into the air. (www.thedrive.com) 更多...

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Shenghao Han 大約一年之前 22

V0... Rotate...

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Joey Cao 大約一年之前 3

Cleared for Launch

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patrick baker 大約一年之前 9

boeing builds better butts: bet it was hardly scratched...

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sparkie624 大約一年之前 3

Normally those kinds of tips are gradual and very low impact.... Will take some careful planning, but damage should be minimal.

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Atanu Dey 大約一年之前 1

I like your alliteration. You got five b's in a row.

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Andrew Turnbull 大約一年之前 1

Could've gotten 6 if he'd incorporated his last name.

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ffrcobra1 大約一年之前 9

I bet the guy in charge of installing the tail stand is looking for a new job.

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Jim DeTour 大約一年之前 1

Yah there's also why weren't they unlocking and moving freight forward to adjust. Could of been snagged pallet and front kept offloading the front leaving the guys towards the rear in a predicament. Or some heavier machinery was loaded in the rear that loading they made sure a few pallets to offset loading the rear wouldn't tilt the plane. Should of been a warning from origin in that case. Looks like the tail stand might be standard for awhile :) Normally you get a good indication the plane is shifting exterior and interior. Evidently the guys inside were deaf and dumb because both wheeled loader operators should of been screaming.

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Ron Nantes 大約一年之前 4

Should "have" not should "of".

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B Johnson 大約一年之前 2

how about 'could have' ..

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mark jones 大約一年之前 5

You experts here have it all wrong. This is the new, “Top Secret “ 747 in Dump configuration mode. It’s used for passengers who need to rapidly de-plane to catch a connection. For cargo, you dump it right into waiting trucks.

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srobak 大約一年之前 1

This is precisely why I always thought the C5 would make an excellent passenger plane.

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sparkie624 大約一年之前 4

Someone just got a 3 Day Vacation without pay... LOL...

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Allan Kidd 大約一年之前 4

if you look closely you will see that is the new JATO 747 in launch configuration

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john krull 大約一年之前 1

Might save fuel, but a real loss of personnel. Hopefully

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Chris B 大約一年之前 4

Not at V2 yet.....

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sparkie624 大約一年之前 2

Put enough power between anything and it will go up.... We proved that with the Apollo Missions.

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James Simms 大約一年之前 3

And F4 Phantoms

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dj horton 大約一年之前 3

Thankfully it was a lesson learned while it was still on the ground and not after it got airborne

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Jim Nasby 大約一年之前 1

Well, it is a lot harder to unload while in flight...

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SmokedChops 大約一年之前 1

well, yes, there is that small issue... (these are right up there with the MX reports. "humming from behind center pedestal" reply "people behind pedestal told to learn actual lyrics")

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Richard Loven 大約一年之前 3

This is Boeing’s fault too. They didn't’ explain the loading procedures clearly enough.

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sharon bias 大約一年之前 3

Well, it's not like the Iranians are going to get any parts to fix the thing from Boeing. Lucky for them it happened in Qatar. Qatar has a quality airport and they're equipped to handle this sort of stuff.

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MIKE SWICK 大約一年之前 3

checklists checklists checklists

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Darryl Lyons 大約一年之前 3

Weight and Balance 101. Progressive off-loading.

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Scott Campbell 大約一年之前 3

They don't like that , almost as stupid as the dreaded 737-900 ... that needs a fuel burn to reach a preferred altitude and a tail stick to unload PX ... " Oh wait we can't divert there, they don't have a tail stick" the 37.10 will be a nightmare as well

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Thierry DAVROUX 大約一年之前 3

Check your keyboard !

Indeed, this remind me an accident that happen some years ago, to an Emirates A330 (or may be A340) departing from LFPG. Same problem, incorrect loading that cause a premature rotation at take-off (and this was a flight with passengers). There is a very instructive report from BEA (Bureau Enquete Accident) about it.

To summarize: the origin of this incident was an incorrect value entered in the load calculation software, at the very first stage of flight preparation. This was because of a $10 keyboard has a defective "5" key… and no control of a valid value by the software.

Incredible, but true !

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Thierry DAVROUX 大約一年之前 3

Correction : this was on a A300-600 in 1997.

If you wonder how a such error is possible, the report is still available here:
https://www.bea.aero/fileadmin/documents/docspa/1997/a6-o970730a/pdf/a6-o970730a.pdf

Read page 13 about the keyboard problem.

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Matha Goram 大約一年之前 1

Million dollar aircraft and still using membrane keyboards? I had to use a $9 (MSRP) keyboard at work (the Gray Lady of Silicon Valley) and came home to a electro-mechanical keyboard at home. My keyboard is still working. Wonder what happened to the Gray Lady!

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Mike Williams 大約一年之前 1

Back in the late '80s my alarm company used to install an inexpensive alarm system who used membrane keypads. We replaced at least 1 keypad/control for a coustomer who used a pencil's eraser. He was unable to use his fingers like most people do.As of now I belive that alarm system is now 100% unreacheable.It was an ACE security control panel from Adcor Electronics. I still have the installers programmming manual. I think we added a hard buttoned keypad to do normal daily on/off security functions.

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Philip Hicks 大約一年之前 3

Didn't they have a tail steady [ tail jack ] ? Ar Auckland [ AKL ] when doing a turn around of a B747 Freighter the a/c handling crew always installed a tail steady. Signature required on our paperwork as well!

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sparkie624 大約一年之前 3

You would think... But I guess you could say that got a real Tail Stand.... LOL.... Lay it on the tail and stand it up Proud.... :)

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srobak 大約一年之前 1

shoulda fired up the engines and run it down the taxiway for a hell of a show.

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dardav 大約一年之前 4

as a infidel I accept all blame. Who knew. Somebody call somebody!!

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James Simms 大約一年之前 5

Rosie O’Donnell sitting in the back?

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Dave Fisher 大約一年之前 -2

asshole 2.0

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Dave Fisher 大約一年之前 -2

asshole comment

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Larry Loffelmacher 大約一年之前 2

Every few years we get one of these......photo op then forgotten.....it'll buff right out

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TWA55 大約一年之前 2

What goes up will at some point go down, may nn to consider a tail stand.

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Jim Welch 大約一年之前 2

You just KNOW some guy went home and had to say “Sorry Honey. I lost my job today.”

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rastapoodle 大約一年之前 2

I was a 'loadmaster' for UPS Airlines for 8 years. I was expected to load/unload the 747 fast but always by the book. At airports where UPS had ground service vendors, if I witnessed something that could get me fired, I had to stop the vendor. Between a language barrier and being female, I did not always get cooperation, but I kept my job. Write-ups were time consuming but I was flying on that plane, so I was protecting my own a@@, as well. Loved our charters, got to see the world, loved the 747, DC-10, not so much. We rarely used the nose, mostly the side door.

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Elliot Cannon 大約一年之前 1

I don't remember having loadmasters at UPS. I remember load supervisors but not "loadmasters". Of course that was 13 years ago.LOL I don't remember DC-10's either. Did you mean MD11?

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rastapoodle 大約一年之前 1

Sorry, I did mean MD-11. But yes, I did not work for the package side of the business, I worked for the Airline. We were part of the charters for the military for the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF).

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Richard Otterbourg 大約一年之前 2

Lets Keep the Comment's to the Topic

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Atanu Dey 大約一年之前 2

ROTFLMAO. Should have RTFM.

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john krull 大約一年之前 2

Fire up the engines with brakes on, then release brakes. Guaranteed shortest take off distance for ANY aircraft but VTOL. (Especially for a B747!).

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Ric Wernicke 大約一年之前 2

What do you expect when the loadmaster comes to work in short pants and flip-flops?

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SmokedChops 大約一年之前 1

"your LD3 of sildenafil is here!"..."how can you tell?"..."just a guess.."

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Scott Campbell 大約一年之前 1

just fly it home, no wing or engine damage

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Greg Starkey 大約一年之前 1

Don't they use 'load cell's ' ? DUH

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panam1971 大約一年之前 1

I'm pretty sure somebody fell asleep during the class on "Weight and Balance"...

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sparkie624 大約一年之前 2

Must have been 1 of the 7 Dwarves... Maybe it was sleepy... Either way it goes, he/she got a rude awakening!

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CLARENCE HELLER 大約一年之前 1

Do the load plan in the office,then you know what will & what will not be correct. CAL lost a 747 due to improper repair of a tail strike. weakened the pressure bulkhead. broke in flight & lost all

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Michael Stansfield 大約一年之前 0

"Tips over backwards"? Did not look like it tipped over to me, just sitting on its tail. Modern journalist schools strike again.

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Viv Pike 大約一年之前 6

LOL. It tipped over backwards, dude. What else? OK - maybe English is not your first language.

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paul gilpin 大約一年之前 1

your wife boards an aircraft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRuAhBMFu9g

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Neil49 大約一年之前 0

Infantile.

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Jim Myers 大約一年之前 -3

Keep your filthy politics to yourself.

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Rich Boddy 大約一年之前 1

Why are you the way you are?

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cowboybob 大約一年之前 -1

wow Boeing probably screwed this up too....

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joel wiley 大約一年之前 0

Don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist here, but how often does that kind of incident occur? This is the only one they have, and getting replacement parts can be dicey with the sanctions.
Was it accidental incompetence or deliberate?

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sparkie624 大約一年之前 1

I don't think this was a conspiracy issue here, and I very seriously doubt that it was anything else other than someone screwed up in the work force... (IE Tail Stand)... But I would rather see one laid pm it's tail due to bad loading vs one where it's load shifted in flight.... For those who do not remember the "Crash of Boeing 747 in Afghanistan caused by shifting cargo" where "The National Transportation Safety Board said an improperly secured vehicle in cargo rendered the huge aircraft uncontrollable in 2013 crash" - At least here no one got injured (Severely anyway) - I imagine the guy moving the load inside the plane got a bruise or 2.... A little bit of sheet metal work and this one is back working again... (God Bless Sheet Metal Mechanics)!

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Dennis Stockton 大約一年之前 -7

Allahu Akbar!

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