747 Breaks in half during takeoff
 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,358041,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/images/372559...lgiumCrash.jpg

ONLY 4 injured.

"Airport officials said the plane was carrying cargo weighing 76 tons, over half of which was diplomatic mail. Other cargo included a car and batteries."


Diplomatic mail. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Connie's supposed to be a cheap SOB. Lack of maintenance? Maybe he's trying to save up to beat Schumacher?

It's a miracle nobody got kilt.

If I'm not mistaken, Kalitta Air is who Normy used to fly for prior to his current FedEx gig - should be interesting to hear his thoughts on this one. . .

He is well known in the community for being the cheapest that there is in this area.

Mamma mia, that is unbelievable!

said Jan Van der Cruysse, spokesman at Brussels Airport.

"The plane is very seriously damaged,"



Duh

Main runway at Brussels is almost 12,000 feet long, so they had lots of room to get to takeoff speed then abort "if everything was working ok" that is...

Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.

hey, somebody had to say it....

That thing needed a GT stiffening kit.

Wonder if the pilot noticed any "cowl shake" ??:D:D

Just give it to Nostatus's old man and he will have it flying again by tommorow. A little duct tape and bailing wire ought to do the trick. works all the time for the R Gruppe.

ducktape and crazy glue should stitch that right up

http://www.foxnews.com/images/372559...lgiumCrash.jpg


good thing no one was killed

Bondo

It looks as though the fuselage of that airplane split apart.

One too many cycles on the airframe? Stress breaks, etc?

Someone forgot to tension the socks?

That'll buff right out!

Kinda looks like what happens to some 914's

Doesn't Pelican sell aftermarket body panels and frame pieces?

Connie Kalitta is rather infamous in our biz. The cheapest, most crass S.O.B. we have to deal with from our service engineering department. Flies the most crapped out old P.O.S's in the air.