Qatar Airways Cargo 777 damages its right wing
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Qatar Airways Cargo 777 damages its right wing
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They are on BB2. Must have missed the turn down to U and thought they could skip straight onto Z. They have ended up in the Regional Jet parking apron with a taxiway wingspan max of 36m. Tad shy of the 65m needed to get down there.
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Well they just followed ATC instruction perfectly
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The is the expat risk. With 2 sets of crew onboard all in the cockpit then all are liable for anything that goes wrong. In this case a taxiing down a Max 36 wingspan taxiway should have been picked up by someone... Clearly it wasn't.
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Looking at Google Earth, the taxiway doesn't seem to have any paintwork listing the wingspan limits - These seem to appear (very usefully!) in some places (for an example you could check EHAM ramp here). Simple, cheap, effective...
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Looking at Google Earth, the taxiway doesn't seem to have any paintwork listing the wingspan limits - These seem to appear (very usefully!) in some places (for an example you could check EHAM ramp here). Simple, cheap, effective...
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were only two in the cockpit. Atlanta Chicago is not a long flight. I don't know if was any dead heading crew. Even if was any why to fire them. It's not reasonable. I am not sure the article is correct
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QR Fires All 4 Pilots!
ORD is a jungle, even for this former United pilot!
l have a bad feeling these poor bastards flew all the way from Doha to Atlanta and then Chicago?
Talking about being so fatigued, you turn into a taxiway not authorized for your aircraft and perhaps with some help from a sleepy Ground Controller you find that damn light pole that jumps in front of you out of nowhere and wrap your wing around it!
l have no idea what happened nor l want blame anyone without knowing al the facts. But for QR to fire these guys on the spot, without any investigation is petty ****ty, l think.
l trained a couple of QR 777 crews when they first got them and a little familiar with their “off with their heads” culture. Those of you on Linkdin may want to have some fun finding my post about this, and the beatings l received from non pilots and obviously QR shills for suggesting fatigue may have been a part in this unfortunate incident.
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