AA door ripped off by jetway – no chocks!

I doubt you can find a spare door in the classifieds! 😉

Doesn’t employment come under classifieds :diablo:

well thats something you don’t see everyday!

Indeed not Kabir, but when you actually experience it, its actually quite scary!

This happened to me only a couple of weeks ago when I met an inbound flight; only difference was that on this particular occasion the rollback was not caused due to a lack of chocks, more so the fact that the Captain had not set the parking break properly, but thankfully it was only the slightest of rollbacks and no damage was caused, but you’ll be surprised how easy it can be for things like this to happen and potentially how costly they can be!

Photos on the video seem to suggest the fuselage skin is damaged/split to the left of the exit too – unless it is debris from the door still fixed to the hinge mechanism….
Paul F

That is a thin cable supplying power to the for the light in the door and I THINK the power supply and indication to and from the escape slide. The 777 door has shear pins fitted at this point to protect the aircraft and to a certain extent the door.
We get a lot of grief from the chock men at work when we insist that the aircraft is properly chocked. We have stopped the entire un loading process for fifteen minutes untill the aircraft was properly chocked.

Rgds Cking

Might find some chocks though! 😀

Somebody will be looking through the classifieds

I doubt you can find a spare door in the classifieds! 😉

I think the door was left in the jetway entrance.

Back in the late 90s, some friends left their 727 parked overnight on the ramp at FALA (Lanseria, South Africa). The ramp has quite a slope. They forgot to put the chocks in place. The parking brake will not hold forever once the hydraulics are switched off. During the night the brakes finally faded and the plane rolled down the slope and crashed into a hangar, causing damage to the hangar and left wing. It could have been worse if there was another plane taxiing up towards the ramp.

Ouch!

Photos on the video seem to suggest the fuselage skin is damaged/split to the left of the exit too – unless it is debris from the door still fixed to the hinge mechanism….

An expensive mistake – and lucky the aircraft didn’t hit anything or anybody else if it really did roll the 200 feet as claimed.

Paul F

Somebody will be looking through the classifieds

well thats something you don’t see everyday!