Comments on: Truck Collides With Airplane http://www.flightsfromhell.com/2010/01/truck-collides-with-airplane/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=truck-collides-with-airplane A fun flying blog with airline travel stories Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:17:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: MM http://www.flightsfromhell.com/2010/01/truck-collides-with-airplane/#comment-8591 MM Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:03:57 +0000 http://www.flightsfromhell.com/?p=3152#comment-8591 Had a similar experience flying from Puerto Rico to Miami. I'd just finished a vacation in Martinique, and had flown up to Puerto Rico to connect to Miami. After waiting in customs long enough to miss my flight, I was rerouted to a red-eye flight. After sitting in San Juan airport for many hours, I was finally able to board my flight. I was lucky enough to have been seated in first class (my aunt and uncle had paid for my trip and decided to spoil me), and as the plane started backing up I struck up a conversation with a man from Dominica. Suddenly, everything went black and the plane drifted back slowly. I wasn't too worried, but I wasn't an extremely experienced flyer ever--probably a dozen or so flights in my life. The guy next to me said, "Well, now the pilots are on their toes. Imagine if that happened in the air. These things aren't meant to be in the air...given the chance they'll come right down." Comforting. Lights came back on and we flew home. Had a similar experience flying from Puerto Rico to Miami.

I'd just finished a vacation in Martinique, and had flown up to Puerto Rico to connect to Miami. After waiting in customs long enough to miss my flight, I was rerouted to a red-eye flight. After sitting in San Juan airport for many hours, I was finally able to board my flight.

I was lucky enough to have been seated in first class (my aunt and uncle had paid for my trip and decided to spoil me), and as the plane started backing up I struck up a conversation with a man from Dominica. Suddenly, everything went black and the plane drifted back slowly. I wasn't too worried, but I wasn't an extremely experienced flyer ever–probably a dozen or so flights in my life. The guy next to me said, "Well, now the pilots are on their toes. Imagine if that happened in the air. These things aren't meant to be in the air…given the chance they'll come right down." Comforting. Lights came back on and we flew home.

]]> By: TK http://www.flightsfromhell.com/2010/01/truck-collides-with-airplane/#comment-7283 TK Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:45:12 +0000 http://www.flightsfromhell.com/?p=3152#comment-7283 My son actually had that happen to him. He was marshaling in a plane while short staffed so he had only one wing walker. Next thing you knew the plane's wing clipped the jetway. Sirens, fire trucks and airport cops arrived.... the whole nine yards. Talk about a bad day at work ;) My son actually had that happen to him. He was marshaling in a plane while short staffed so he had only one wing walker. Next thing you knew the plane's wing clipped the jetway. Sirens, fire trucks and airport cops arrived…. the whole nine yards. Talk about a bad day at work ;)

]]> By: Tim Spooner http://www.flightsfromhell.com/2010/01/truck-collides-with-airplane/#comment-7232 Tim Spooner Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:25:57 +0000 http://www.flightsfromhell.com/?p=3152#comment-7232 I was on a flight from Auckland to Bangkok on Thai Airways. Everything on boarding went smoothly (as it always seems to do on Thai) and the plane had just started to be pushed back from the airbridge when EVERYTHING went dead! No engines, no power, no lights, nothing! It went from the normal sounds to total silence. Nobody spoke ,it was like time stood still. The plane was pulled back to the airbridge and "things were done to it" for about 20 minutes, then the usual flight routine went ahead and we landed 11 hours later, although I think everybody was listening throughout to make sure it did not go quiet again . My friend who is a senior engineer with Thai told me it was probably caused by an error in transferring fuel feed from the auxiliary engine to the main engines. I was on a flight from Auckland to Bangkok on Thai Airways. Everything on boarding went smoothly (as it always seems to do on Thai) and the plane had just started to be pushed back from the airbridge when EVERYTHING went dead! No engines, no power, no lights, nothing! It went from the normal sounds to total silence. Nobody spoke ,it was like time stood still. The plane was pulled back to the airbridge and "things were done to it" for about 20 minutes, then the usual flight routine went ahead and we landed 11 hours later, although I think everybody was listening throughout to make sure it did not go quiet again . My friend who is a senior engineer with Thai told me it was probably caused by an error in transferring fuel feed from the auxiliary engine to the main engines.

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