Posted on 03/28/2006 2:16:59 PM PST by rocksblues
(Nutley-WABC, March 28, 2006) - It appears parts of a cargo plane fell from the sky. Tim Fleischer is in Nutley with the story. Some very, very scary moments for a Nutley New Jersey family. They actually did not hear the piece that fell on their sidewalk, but it still came dangerously closes to their home.
Bob Suchocki, Nutley Resident: "Well, I guess this is where it fell originally."
Bob Suchocki has the pictures to prove it. A piece, about three by four feet long fell right on the front lawn narrowly missing his house.
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I remember the look on a couple fellas when they returned from a test flight of a gulf stream 4 and they were light a cowling.
Their look mirrored the ones on some mechanics faces when I saw a rug get sucked off the wing of a Falcon 20 into a brand new engine.
"Some very, very scary moments for a Nutley New Jersey family."
I'd be willing to wager a small amount of money that it was mush more frightening for the pilot and crew.
The DC-10 is also still in service with Northwest, and numerous foreign airlines.
Age of an airplane has nothing to do with safety. What matters is proper maintenance.
mush = much
Wow, Martha's home town.
Boeing believed doing so would help the 767 freighter... uhh, it didn't.
Just one of a million extremely stupid decisions made by Boeing in the late 90's.
Basically, very few airlines bought the MD-11 in large numbers, and new long-range twins like the Airbus A330 and the Boeing 777 had better economics, and there were these crazy freight dawgs at their door with cash in hand for their small fleets of MD-11's and they didn't pay bankruptcy sale prices either. Good deal for everyone.
The carriers still flying MD-11s and DC-10s will be surprised to hear that, not to mention the Air Force and their KC-10s.
But, was it before 10 am??????
But, was it before 10 am??????
Quick, run it to the scrap yard!
Flight pat, details here: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/FDX3015
correction
flight PATH, details here: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/FDX3015
MD-11... never forget that big ole plane shaking when the pilot hit full on aborting a landing at MIA. Passengers were screaming.
I had at the time an office overlooking the west runway, and I'd seen more than a few such events, so I knew what was going on. From my office one couldn't hear much of takeoffs or landings -- except for aborted landings from the big planes. Shook the whole building from inside out. Loved it!
Great move by DHL to buy those scrap pieces, paint them in Fedex colors and then start leaving them around the country at night in people's yards.
I use to 'hang' in Nutley :)
I doubt it.
After the engine fell off the DC-10 over O'Hare back in the 70's, and a few others augered in, most passenger carriers phased them out. The History channel had a show about two months ago about the abysmal safety record of the DC-10, pointing out that most passenger carriers won't use them.
As for the USAF, we had them spontaneously exploding on the ground since the 80's. Barksdale and March AFB's. Hell, I was there.
Continental Airlines puts DC-10 aircraft under scrutiny Airline Industry Information, Sept 13, 2000
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Continental Airlines has experienced two aircraft incidents recently, one involving a DC-10 aircraft and the other a Boeing. In the first incident a DC-10 aircraft experienced engine failure on 7 September and forced an aborted takeoff in Amsterdam. The problem followed other incidents on 25 April and 5 September involving DC-10 aircraft, which has prompted Continental Airlines to launch an investigation into its DC-10 fleet. GE Aircraft Engines in Cincinnati, which provides the DC-10's CF6-50 engines, has indicated that in all three incidents an exhaust nozzle on the engine came loose, according to the Associated Press. In the second recent incident, a Continental Airlines Boeing 737 suffered an engine fire on 10 September at Newark International Airport. The pilot shut the engine down and evacuated passengers with no-one hurt. A spokesperson for Continental Airlines stated that the fire had occurred in the tailpipe after fuel leaked from the left-wing engine.
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