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how actually this gonna happen
Veeeeery carefully.
Looks like the one in front backed into the one in back. With no rear visibility, I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often. I know you’ve got Captain Eveready down there with the flashlights, but still…
The pilots don’t back the planes up. They’re pushed out by specially designed vehicles.
Not entirely true. The one on the left, the DC-9, can actually back up without a tow/push tractor. If the Airbus on the right is at the gate, which it appears to be (noting the ground equipment to the far left), then the pilot of the DC-9 screwed up. There is no reason why the dc-9 would be behind the airbus otherwise, especially not seeming to be heading into a gate as well.
It can, but airports don’t allow that. That would be a safety violation.
The tug probably was backing up the airbus as the DC-9 was taxiing to the gate.
The pilot doesn’t back the plane up, the plane isn’t being marshaled by the man with the wands the tug is, planes can’t go backwards, barring the use of reverse thrusters which is banned at most airports. Before you reply telling me how stupid and wrong I am, I am a pilot myself and know this for a fact.
I can’t even imagine what happened here… crazy!
¡ A pesar de los controles, también se presentan percances !
¿ Supieron lo del caso del DC-9 de ASERCA en Maiquetia, que rodo
solo con los motores prendidos en dias pasados?
“Looks like the one in front backed into the one in back. With no rear visibility, I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often. I know you’ve got Captain Eveready down there with the flashlights, but still…”
erm, airplanes don’t have reverse gear… or any gears for that matter. they only go backwards when that little truck thing is towing them.
actually…some aircraft have reverse thrust, allowing them to move in reverse, however neither of the aircraft showed here comes equipped with it
looks like YOU FAIL
nah, reverse thrust on most jet airliners isn’t powerful to make ‘em move backwards too quickly, and it’s never used for backing up because the jet blast could cause damage to anything in front of the plane (like if the plane is at the gate at a large airport, using reverse thrust would shatter the windows in the terminal building). The one in back DEFINITELY went forward into the other plane.
WRONG! It will on almost all. Been there done that.
you are wrong the reverst thrust is praticly nill
Spoken like someone who flies about once every twenty years. Lots of airlines uses reverse thrust instead of paying pushback services at airports. DC9′s have plenty of reverse thrust power. Ever flew Airtran or Valujet in the 90′s? All reverse thrust, no pushbacks.
Actually as someone who has taken flight training, reverse thurst is never to be used under 70 knots, it can damage the jet engines. It can only be used to test before flight. A push-back is required at all major international airports. Most airports also do not allow a pilot to begin the engine startup sequence until push-back to avoid harming the workers on the ground.
Both of those planes have reverse thrust. The DC 9, or the small one, has reverse thrust in its rear mounted engines, but you can’t see them because of the angle of the shot. The big airplane, has reverse thrust on its wing mounted engines. I think the plane is an Embraer 175, or it might be an A320 or A319.
brilliant sir! you must be a planespotter or similar, i learn my specs from x-plane 9
Really, xplane9? I’m 12 and I learn on airplanes in adult airplane guides!
looks like the one in the back forwarded into the one in the front. they’ve got plenty of front visibility, so i’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often. captain eveready was busy changing the batteries in his flashlight.
wow, I wonder which airport this happened at?
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It happened in Minneapolis… before the bridge collapse actually : )
“erm, airplanes don’t have reverse gear… or any gears for that matter. they only go backwards when that little truck thing is towing them.”
No. Commercial jet aircraft have thrust reversers. They can back up under their own power. However, I don’t know of any Part 23 (read: light) jet aircraft with thrust reversers; those aircraft would require a truck to back them up. I suppose a turboprop could back up by adjusting the blade pitch, but I don’t work with those and don’t know much about them. Also, LSAs and ultralights can often be found with gearboxes between the engine and the prop.
“Commercial jet aircraft have thrust reversers. They can back up under their own power.” – Aircraft knowledge FAIL.
Thrust reversers are use to slow the aircraft down when on the ground. On modern aircraft with engines below the wing, using reversers below a certain speed (about 60 knots, 110kph) can actually damage the engines. That NWA Airbus 319 certainly did NOT do that. Very few jets would actually be able to do that actually (old DC9′s and Fokkers for example).
Virtually all heavy commercial aircraft do have reversers, but they would never deliberately use them to taxi backwards – doing so would ingest dirt and debris into the engines.
The larger aircraft is an Airbus 320 of some kind, and is equipped with reversers although as I said it would never use them to go backwards. The other aircraft probably caused the crash.
You FAIL at Google.
On a pilot’s forum, this seemed to be a popular sentiment, “Should show that video to all the morons that unbuckle and start grabbing crap out of the overhead bins before the plane is stopped.”
NTSB Preliminary Report
The DC had hydraulic problems during flight but landed without incident. They wisely stopped and requested a tow to the gate. When it didn’t come timely, and with the plane apparently working well enough, they unwisely decided to come to the gate under their own power — that’s when they lost the ability to steer.
Jeez, links were eaten, I FAIL at FAIL Blog. Trying again.
http://www.aerospacenews.com/content/view/322/43/
http://wcbstv.com/video/?id=89479@wcbs.dayport.com
ok wtf
I FAIL at FAIL Blog link posting.
NTSB
http://www.aerospacenews.com/content/view/322/43/
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wcbstv.com/video/?id=89479@wcbs.dayport.com
I think this is a reproduction fail….
narh…planes can reverse nowadays. I was on one when it overshot past it’s turn seconds after landing…had to reverse to get into the runway.
Isn’t this mislabled. Shouldn’t it be :
Procreation Fail
Go MSP… Sigh…NWA will take you places… in an ambulance…
…And that’s where baby airplanes come from.
P.S.: I lol’ed when I realized that the sides of the planes read “NWA.”
gangsta rap airline fail
no. there having sexy sex!
That’s not a fail. That’s sweet, sweet love.
See children, the male mates with the female by “riding on the female’s back”.
airplane mating win
*giggle*
They’re getting all freaky.
Slippery when Wet.
oh my god, how on earth did this actually happen
um… i think theres a wing missing on the smaller plane……. this is obviously fake
oh its real. didn’t u see the links?
http://wcbstv.com/video/?id=89479@wcbs.dayport.com
lol plane sex
the plane in the back lost control and hit the other plane if they even had reverse it would only move the plane at about 15 mph not nerly enough to do that much damage
Far be it from me to come up with facts that might interfere with a good FAIL flamewar, but straight from the horse’s mouth:
http://ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20051213X01965&key=2
The one in front is an Airbus 319. The one in the back is a DC9-51. Fact of the matter is that there’s plenty of fail to go around. Considering this was Northwest Airlines, this should be a surprise to nobody.
i think we are about to get some baby-planes
THERE MATEING TO MAKE LITTLE PLANES GOSH ! CAN A PLANE EVER GET SOME PRIVECY AND YES I KNOW I SPELLED IT WRONG SO SUCK IT
that is what the planes were planning on doing but we interrupted
im on vacation right now and im going home in a few days. hope this doesn’t happen to me on the plane!
Thats probably one of the reasons why NWA got bought out by Delta, and Delta sucks.
[...] I hope that kid wanted to be an astronaut or pilot when he grew up.my uncle trying to out-throw his baby to his brothers babies [...]
[...] I hope that kid wanted to be an astronaut or pilot when he grew up.my uncle trying to out-throw his baby to his brothers babies [...]
[...] I hope that kid wanted to be an astronaut or pilot when he grew up.my uncle trying to out-throw his baby to his brothers babies [...]
[...] I hope that kid wanted to be an astronaut or pilot when he grew up.my uncle trying to out-throw his baby to his brothers babies [...]
Everytime I see NWA, I think instead of the rap group N.W.A., which stands for something decidedly different from North West Airlines…
[...] I hope that kid wanted to be an astronaut or pilot when he grew up.my uncle trying to out-throw his baby to his brothers babies [...]
[...] I hope that kid wanted to be an astronaut or pilot when he grew up.my uncle trying to out-throw his baby to his brothers babies [...]
slow, easyyyyyyyyyyy….. ok LIKE A GLOVE
women pilots eh!
[...] I hope that kid wanted to be an astronaut or pilot when he grew up.my uncle trying to out-throw his baby to his brothers babies [...]
This is not funny. Sad fail…
I’m a pilot and i can confirm that reverse thrust CAN in fact move an aircraft in reverse. all that reverse thrust is is a flap at the rear of the engine pushing air forward HOWEVER NOT ALL GAS IS REDIRECETD, only about 60% at full throttle. The FAA restricts the use of RTs (reverse thrusters) to use on the runway.
From what it looks like the plane had WAY too much speed on the taxiway and either the steering linkages (all of em) broke or the wet asphault caused it to slide and hydroplane into the other plane. note how the dairplane in the rear would have been increadibally close to the other had it been on course. and to you, airplane god, that is indeed an a320
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The DC-9 (left) lost its steering capability while taxiing to the gate after landing in Minneapolis, and crashed into the A319 which was loading its passengers.
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