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Jetliner hits another while backing up

Postby Bob Of Burleson » Tue Jun 10, 2014 11:32 am

Note: How do you back up a modern jetliner? Seriously. Is there an auxiliary motor that powers the wheels or WHUT?

Two planes involved in crash at Logan Airport
while the jets were still on the tarmac


By Evan Bleier

BOSTON, June 9 (UPI) --A Southwest Airlines plane clipped a stationary JetBlue jet prior to takeoff during the aviation equivalent of a fender-bender at Logan International Airport in Boston on Monday morning.

The Southwest plane was carrying 108 passengers, but the JetBlue aircraft was empty.

Passengers on the Southwest plane felt a "bump" when the aircraft struck the JetBlue jet.

"We had just boarded the plane and the plane was backing out and we felt a little bump," one woman said, according to CBS Boston. "Next thing I knew, the man beside me said 'Oh, we're missing a wing.'"

No one was hurt and the passengers on the Kansas City-bound plane were brought to a secure area to be re-booked,

"At 7:08 this morning, a Southwest aircraft was pushing back from the gate when the wingtip struck the horizontal stabilizer of an empty parked JetBlue aircraft. There were no injuries and no impact to airport operations," MassPort said in a statement.

Both planes sustained minor damage.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2014/06/09/ ... z34FpwKezT

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Re: Jetliner hits another while backing up

Postby LibraryLady » Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:02 pm

Do the airplanes need a back up camera system installed? :D
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Re: Jetliner hits another while backing up

Postby GFB » Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:15 pm

I think they go backwards the same way they go forwards..just reversing the engines.
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Re: Jetliner hits another while backing up

Postby Bob Of Burleson » Tue Jun 10, 2014 10:48 pm

GFB wrote:I think they go backwards the same way they go forwards..just reversing the engines.


That was the way it was with the old prop-motor planes, but can you reverse a jet engine?

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Re: Jetliner hits another while backing up

Postby GFB » Tue Jun 10, 2014 11:06 pm

Bob Of Burleson wrote:
GFB wrote:I think they go backwards the same way they go forwards..just reversing the engines.


That was the way it was with the old prop-motor planes, but can you reverse a jet engine?


Yes..traditionally, that is how they stop them so quickly..throw the engines in reverse.
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