XL 738 C-GOAF damaged by ground equipment! (NCL 20/09/07)

Not good. Suppose we’l be getting a charter a/c then ?

Nope pax went to a hotel while the wheels got changed only snag is they cant get the jack off the aircraft woops, was so much fun checking the passengers back in this morning and telling them that!

C-GOAF is fixed.

Yeh the manager of the aero club owns one. It is a regular on the show circuit.

Thanks Luke mate:D Could not remember if there was one there or not.

James

Off topic, but I’m sure young Britannia won’t mind – info about the Gill hangar and the JP within:

Look long and hard at the Gill Hangar – in two weeks it won’t be there. Newcastle college are to build a new Academy (academy 2, the revenge?) in its place. That 737 may be the last active aircraft to be in that hangar….

I may be wrong (I only work for the college aeronatical department!) but the JP is also NCL colleges. We have a silver T3 which will be used for a/c jacking, systems training, etc. It may be that one, or the OTHER JP. We were alledgedly looking at getting 4 of them…!

There is another T3 which is a flier, privately owned and usually based in the GA / helecopter hangar next to the Academy’s 737-200, C-GWJO. (Sorry Brittania, back to topic now! – NEAM update over on historic mate!)

From an engineers POV, that 737 will not and cannot fly with that kind of damage. No one would sign a CRS even if the pilot would take it. As has been said, a competent sheety would be able to do a simple patch repair, jointing the stringers behind. Hopefully not much damage has been done to the frames within, but even so, a repair will be a reletively simple matter.

All the best, LL

Well she is still sitting there in the hanger, OH-LBS has gone tech today aswell.

Not good. Suppose we’l be getting a charter a/c then ?

Well she is still sitting there in the hanger, OH-LBS has gone tech today aswell.

Is there a JP based at NCL aswel?

James

Yeh the manager of the aero club owns one. It is a regular on the show circuit.

a striped down jet provost!

Is there a JP based at NCL aswel?

James

The first thing that sruck me about the repair to that ,is the access behind it. That damage runs from about halfway along the lower avionics bay to behind the crew oxygen bottle stowage in the forwad freight bay.
To get at it will require the stripping out of all of the avionics and their racks on the right hand side of the bay. Once the repair has been done and all the swarf has been removed there will be an awful lot of testing going on!
The area behind it is also very cramped so the repair will take some time because you won’t be able to get more than one man in the avionic bay at a time. The area in the fwd freight is a little more accessable.
As for the proximity of the static ports. The RVSM area (The grey dotted line oblong on the fuselage) is not affected. The static port aft of it might cause a problem but, as it is below the repair I doubt it. But I would of course consult the relevent SRM’s before starting any work on the aircraft!
Yes I think there will be some serious overtime involved!

Rgds Cking

A big repair, especially with the proximty of the static port 🙁

Lots of overtime 😀

Also depends if it cut through any stringers or longrons, if not then a patch will do the trick. looks a far enough from the static port not to have caused any damage. I guess if that had been damaged (no go item) it would have been grounded and not flown o NCL for repair.

A fork lift driver was suddenly dazzled by his colleague’s ‘chav’ shorts (pictured) and drove straight into it… (honest) 😮

I’ll pass that onto the ground staff in there chaved up baggauge carts :dev2:

Ah so that explains why she was parked up over there. I seem to miss it all when im off work.

The Gill hanger is now used as storage for the airports snow plows huge things they are and a striped down jet provost!

Should be an easy enough patch repair. Done all the time.

A fork lift driver was suddenly dazzled by his colleague’s ‘chav’ shorts (pictured) and drove straight into it… (honest) 😮

LMAO.:D

Are you being serious…?!(:o)

What’s the story..how did the incident occur??

A fork lift driver was suddenly dazzled by his colleague’s ‘chav’ shorts (pictured) and drove straight into it… (honest) 😮

What’s the story..how did the incident occur??

Is this Aircraft on lsd to Excel or is it one off there aircraft and been away on loan in Canada? Nice shots aswel Chris looks like he has a paper cut :rolleyes:

James

Nice shots there. Dont think iv ever seen that GILL hangar in use especially nothing commercial or as big as a 738.

Nice catch mate

James