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British Airways jet took a nose dive because mechanic was too short to lock landing gear
A British Airways jet collapsed on its nose at Heathrow Airport after a mechanic was too short to lock its landing gear into place, a report has revealed. The lead mechanic was tasked with securing the nose landing gear of the Boeing 787-8 in the down position before a planned flight to Germany last month. But according to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch report, he was “not tall enough” to reach a pin needed to lock landing gear, so asked a taller colleague to perform the task. However,… (www.yahoo.com) עוד...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Duplicate squawk.
If you are to short, stand on something and do the job you were tasked to do. Common sense if you ask me.
Wow, some people.
Wow, some people.
He used a step-stool performing that same task on the main gear. He asked a taller workmate to perform the task on the nose gear and that worker screwed up. Read the article.
Bad problem that combines human mistake with design problem. This should be a preventable accident with a design that does not allow a pin to be placed into a wrong bore located near the correct placement site. (You cannot put a diesel fuel nozzle in a gasoline tank because the nozzle size is too big to fit into a gasoline receptacle.) The bore size of the apex pin bore should be too small to allow the NLG pin to be accidentally placed. Take human error out of the equation.
This is a classic example of Murphy's Law at work.
Putting it in the wrong hole can certainly cause problems.