It had no gear so it had to be resting on something.

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Another thing I noticed was that the gear door closest to the nose wasnt flush with the body when closed – is that common? (you can see in first pic, the plane looks like its smiling)

Yes ALL 767 nose gear doors droop when on the ground. They are held firmly shut when the gear is up. Whe the gear is down in the air, the air flow holds them shut. Once on the ground they droop a bit. Nothing to worry about.

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I wouldn’t want to work with the public.
It has been said that the airline buisness would be a lot better without passengers……pilots……cabin crew……ground staff…..aircraft……airports… In fact if they just paid me to stay home and write rubbish on the internet my job would be perfect!!!!:D

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I do not think the engineering work was unrecorded, as it was noted that the balance tabs had been adjust since it’s last flight. What was unrecorded was the pilots desire for the balance tabs to be adjusted, only communicated verbally.

The report said: “The absence of a formal post-flight debrief and formal written record resulted in the balance tabs, attached to the elevators of the aircraft, being adjusted”

That sounds like un recorded work to me.

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She’ll catch her death of cold dressed like that at 35000ft!

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Looking at the pictures on airliners.net. It look like the front two slides were not engaged but the warning flag was placed across the door window.?????:confused: I have never heard of the slides being dis engaged deliberately in flight.
Also as far as I can tell there doesn’t appear to be eny evidence of a wire strike on the fin or flight deck window frame. So the mystery of the missing winglet tips remains.

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The curious thing I noticed about the wreckage is that the top of both winglet are missing. Did it hit some wires on the way down maybe? The rest of the damage looks pretty standard although I was supprised that the crew died looking at the relatively intact flight deck.
Tis sad and my thoughts go out to the families

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Hi WL405 remember me? (Same name different forum) Of course I don’t mind you re posting.
If you look at the extream right end of the spare in your picture there is a triangular shaped rib extending aft of the spar. Our apprentice master, the Late Doug Beckford, designed that as an apprentice test piece. We all had to make one and the best was fitted to the aircraft. It took me days to make mine, so I thought “B*****r it going on the aircraft, I’m having it!” I still have it and the next time I’m in the loft I’ll get it down and post a picture of it.
The upper and lower angles were drilled and riveted together by myself and a few of the other lads, so no comments about the poor riveting!!!! 😀
It is a shame all our hard work has to go though.
Oh by the way the hydraulic reservoir was ruptured by a guy who now works for British Airways and one who works for United!!!!

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