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BA 747 clips building
Posted: 23 Dec 2013, 09:03
by GHD
Re: BA 747 clips building
Posted: 23 Dec 2013, 09:12
by Filonian
Skipper one L. Phillips?
Graham
Re: BA 747 clips building
Posted: 23 Dec 2013, 10:41
by Garry Russell
Expensive
Many of the BA 747-400 are earmarked for withdrawal & parting out
This is G-BNLL one of the aircraft to be retained.

Still with several already parted out they should have a spare wing

Re: BA 747 clips building
Posted: 23 Dec 2013, 16:12
by dodger
Bang goes the Crew's Christmas Bonus
Cheers.
Roger.
Re: BA 747 clips building
Posted: 24 Dec 2013, 17:39
by cstorey
I suppose the only bright spot is that the building is much cheaper than, say, an A380 tailplane . I always feel for the crew in these situations
Re: BA 747 clips building
Posted: 24 Dec 2013, 18:17
by dfarrow
Only bright news was no one seriously hurt , 2nd hope that was it might be the same crew who performed the magnificent stall recovery immediately after take off . When an erroneous 'reverser deployed' message was 'pooter generated , causing the inboard slats to retract ! Shade of Trident PI , but no deep stall .
They surely earned some ''brownie '' points , ... 'there but for the grace of God'
Merry Christmas one and all
rgds dave f .
Re: BA 747 clips building
Posted: 29 Dec 2013, 18:06
by VC10
Re: BA 747 clips building
Posted: 29 Dec 2013, 18:21
by Garry Russell
There was talk from the beginning that the keel beam might have taken a whack.

Re: BA 747 clips building
Posted: 29 Dec 2013, 18:30
by TSR2
That was an expensive taxi. Those are the first daylight photos I'd seen and that building is very badly damaged.
Re: BA 747 clips building
Posted: 29 Dec 2013, 18:53
by VC10
I'm also told it only came off a major check in September, should have been good for another 4 yrs
Paul