PICS: towbar snaps,pushback tractor ploughs into B777 engine

Stratofreighter · Post by **Stratofreighter** » 02 May 2013, 14:42

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has several good photos, including the perpetrator at
http://www7.0zz0.com/2013/04/28/18/595989397.jpeg

another picture:
http://www.emirates247.com/news/region/ ... 9-1.504391

Perhaps "minor" as
http://www.arabnews.com/node/449792?utm ... um=twitter
states, but I think a new cowling for a Boeing 777-size engine doesn't come cheaply...

http://www.jacdec.de/news/news.htm mentions the registration of this Triple Seven as:

(HZ-AK16)

jfaltena · Post by **jfaltena** » 03 May 2013, 15:45

Just wondering if the towbar will be checked for metal stress ? Otherwise I can't find a reason for snapping up just like that...

Grtz, John

Heron · Post by **Heron** » 03 May 2013, 17:14

If you look at the nosewheel position it could have been a question of 'what breaks up first...'

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