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DC-10 Lost Part Of The Body

Tobi3334 From Germany, joined Sep 2004, 146 posts, RR: 4
Posted (4 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 1336 times:

Strange news from FRA. There was just a short note in the newspaper.

Wednesday morning a DC-10 freighter of Omni Air International lost a part of its body in 3500m. The size was around 1,5 x 2,00m.

The plane startet at 7:05am at FRA with destination Baltimore. The pilot returned an landed safely at 8:15am.

Reason is unclear. They didn't tell were the part came down.

Does anyone know more details? Which part can it be?

Greetings
Tobi

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Klaus From Germany, joined Jul 2001, 16574 posts, RR: 54
Reply 1, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 1144 times:

According to the TV news segment I watched, it was a piece of an engine cowling.

411A From United States, joined Nov 2001, 1541 posts, RR: 5
Reply 2, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 1081 times:

This sort of thing can happen while airbourne as well.
I recall one time in the mid-eighties a Lockheed TriStar operated by SaudiArabian 'lost' a left landing gear fixed door after departing CDG.

When the aircraft landed in JED, it continued on to RUH...and then for three more days in country before anyone noticed.

Flight Engineers were then called into the office for ah...re-education, as it had been missed completely on numerous external inspections.

Oh yes, the door, when it landed, sliced a cow clean in two on a farm in France.

HAWK21M From India, joined Jan 2001, 26080 posts, RR: 51
Reply 3, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 1054 times:

When the aircraft landed in JED, it continued on to RUH...and then for three more days in country before anyone noticed.
Didn't the Pilots report Vibration or increased drag caused by the Door loss.
regds
MEL

Think of the brighter side!

411A From United States, joined Nov 2001, 1541 posts, RR: 5
Reply 4, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 990 times:

Oddly enough, Hawk, they did not.
This particular door is fixed to the MLG strut, and is nearly six feet tall and four feet wide.
Kinda hard to miss, visually...hence the retraining for Flight Engineers.
Everyone got quite a laugh about all this, mentioning eye exams for all might be a good idea.

B747FE From Switzerland, joined Jun 2004, 131 posts, RR: 1
Reply 5, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 985 times:

What about the ground engineers?
They also di not see that during severals inspections.

"Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime"

SCXmechanic From United States, joined Dec 1999, 512 posts, RR: 2
Reply 6, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 903 times:

When I worked for TWA back in 1996 we had an L-1011 that lost the same door on approach in to STL. Oddly enough it landed in downtown close to city hall!

Air2gxs From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 5 days ago) and read 821 times:

You know, I'm not sure about the L1011, but the fixed door can be removed on the B757, B767 per the CDL. It is possible that everyone thought the the door had been removed for repair and nobody checked the paperwork.

Pilotpip From United States, joined Sep 2003, 2254 posts, RR: 7
Reply 8, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 801 times:

SCXmechanic,

That had to be pretty close to the old TWA office building down there. Smile

DMI

SlamClick From United States, joined Nov 2003, 9994 posts, RR: 72
Reply 9, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 808 times:

Back in the 1960's the US Navy's aviation safety magazine "Approach" had a feature in each issue, listing objects found on the ground and determined to have fallen off Navy aircraft. They stopped publishing this informationa when the feature became too regular, that is, it was happening every month.

As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly!

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