Trucking company looking for lost airplane parts

WTNH-TV.com, New Haven ^ | January 18, 2004 | AP

[LurkedLongEnough]

(Greenwich-AP, Jan. 18, 2004 9:00 AM) ) The owner of a Stratford trucking company is putting out a plea for anyone who might have found 150-thousand dollars worth of airplane parts somewhere on Interstate 95.

Condor Air Transport owner David Cleveland tells The Greenwich Time that one of his drivers lost two boxes off his flatbed truck Thursday. One of the boxes was turned in to Greenwich Police and returned, but the other is missing.

The driver was traveling south from Stratford to J-F-K International Airport in New York City.

The parts were made by Pratt and Whitney and were bound for Korean Airlines. Cleveland says the box is about two feet high and has a Pratt and Whitney label.

He says he hired an airplane yesterday to fly up and down the highway looking for the package, but with no luck.

Cleveland says he's prepared to offer a substantial reward to whoever turns in the box.

[TaMoDee]

I hope none of those parts which were dropped on a highway
end up installed on an aircraft!! We had enough trouble a couple of years ago with firms furnishing bolts and similar
parts that were substandard.
Drop parts are not "air worthy".

[Welsh Rabbit]

Haven't seen it... In a totally unrelated matter, check out my eBay site for some great deals on very recently arrived airplane parts.

[steve86]

Drop parts are not "air worthy".

I used to have Piper parts drop shipped to me all the time. Never had any problem.

[SW6906]

Clever!

[TaMoDee]

Was it his flute?

[Ben Hecks]

Aircraft parts + flatbed truck = bad decision

[UNGN]

I visited KAL a few years ago on business. They think Americans are a bunch of dumbasses, so they probably won't bat an eye when they hear about this.

[M-cubed]

Aircraft parts + flatbed truck = bad decision"<<..... $150k bad decision = unemployment line on monday!...

[LurkedLongEnough]

The company expecting the parts runs Boeing 737's.

[UNGN]

More likely they were 777 parts (Korean has 90K and 98K lb of thrust 4000's) or 747 or A330 parts (56K and 62K lb of thrust 4000's). $150K in a 2 Foot box sounds like HPT blades or vanes.

Most of the 737's KAL flies are powered by CFM56-7's. Pratt wouldn't be shipping any parts for those.

At least not out of their CT facilities.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Update:

(Stratford-AP, Jan. 19, 2004 9:50 AM) _ Somewhere on Interstate 95 between Stratford and Greenwich may be a box worth about $150,000 to those who lost it.

The 30 pound box is filled with razor-sharp titanium aircraft blades made by Pratt and Whitney. They were being shipped by truck last week to JFK airport, when the box fell off a truck. A second box was recovered, but one remains missing. Police believe the box is still intact, somewhere in the Greenwich area.

A unsuccessful air and ground search of about 28 miles of highway was conducted over the weekend.

Condor Air Transport, which was shipping the box, is offering a reward. Owner David Clevland says while the parts are worth a lot of money, they would not be of any use to anyone but Korean Airlines, which ordered the parts.

[Fixit]

Thought you might find this informative/scary/typical...

[SGCOS]

Phew, they were jet parts.

For one agonizing minute I thought they lost Februarys supply of peanuts.

[wrench]

I saw the article. Falling off the truck, they are probably just gone. Had they disappeared while in the supply chain, they could end up in any turbine disk, airworthy or not.