Washington Incident A340-600

Hi,

A friend of mine who works for Air Canada says that they received Cover Girl a few days ago in the Montreal Hangar after the pilot scraped the tail section hard after takeoff. The plane is being worked on this week by Air Canada maintenace to quickly get it back in service. Anyone know anyone who was on it? Not sure what happened to the paxs. Guess they were put on BA.

Apparently it was scraped on landing:
http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/1664518/

also see

http://www.v-flyer.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1954

Cheers

Michael

Update...it appears as though the aircarft will go back into service this Tuesday.

Found a picture of the scrape from a link on PPRuNe:

http://www.airfleets.net/show/?pic=7031

Cheers

Michael

Ouch...that must have hurt.

GR,
I take it you have one of these "monsters?" hence the name?

quote:Originally posted by mcuth
Found a picture of the scrape from a link on PPRuNe:

http://www.airfleets.net/show/?pic=7031

Cheers

Michael

Not as bad as i thought.

Cheers

Phil

Is that gaffer tape holding it together[?][:0]:D

Sure looks like it!
Great stuff gaffer tape so many uses!!

It looks like it'll be fine after some pollyfiller and a respray;)

Ah good old gaffer tape done menny a bodge with that:D

Cheers

Phil