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http://imgur.com/a/faJ8X I'll make an assumption and assume hydraulic landing gear failure causing the plane to slide off its jacks
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Re: FedEx plane falls off its jacks
2014/08/23 03:46:03
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Well at least it didn't go into an ocean or something. Someone is losing their job over this, however.
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Re: FedEx plane falls off its jacks
2014/08/23 06:12:19
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Wow, oops...  Yeah, somebodies going to pay for that screw up.
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Re: FedEx plane falls off its jacks
2014/08/23 07:23:01
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How'd this even make the the Net? Slow news day RJ?
Anyways, If the jacks are to support the fame, if the gears ever do give out, what happened here? I always wanted my pilots license, but too many health problems, someone educate me here, what happen and was it someone being lazzy or not?
Because, that one heck of a screw-up!
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Re: FedEx plane falls off its jacks
2014/08/23 13:11:38
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Meh, that'll buff right out.
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Re: FedEx plane falls off its jacks
2014/08/23 13:56:41
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Someone set the jacks wrong. Those jacks are meant to hold the plane in place of the landing gear. I've used those sort of jacks before on like sized aircraft. Landing gear fairure in this case should be irrelevant if they set those jacks correctly. If anything they were using those jacks because they were performing maintenance and testing on the landing gear bringing the gear up and down while the aircraft was on the jacks.
post edited by Brad_Hawthorne - 2014/08/23 14:08:43
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Re: FedEx plane falls off its jacks
2014/08/23 14:59:22
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Smart guy,
I got got this, I got a PHD,
Im smart!
Wait, how do ya install/setup these Jacks? Farmer Joe,
PHD, yeah, OK!
Rolls eyes and walks away
post edited by knightsilver - 2014/08/23 15:02:08
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Re: FedEx plane falls off its jacks
2014/08/25 16:41:59
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Brad_Hawthorne
Someone set the jacks wrong. Those jacks are meant to hold the plane in place of the landing gear. I've used those sort of jacks before on like sized aircraft. Landing gear fairure in this case should be irrelevant if they set those jacks correctly. If anything they were using those jacks because they were performing maintenance and testing on the landing gear bringing the gear up and down while the aircraft was on the jacks.
Yup, exactly what I was going to say. A landing gear failure shouldn't cause that to happen. The reason it was kn jacks in the first place was probably due to a routine inspection, landing gear maintenance, or landing gear repair. In other words, regardless of the state the landing gear was in, this shouldn't have happened if the jacks were used correctly.
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Re: FedEx plane falls off its jacks
2014/08/26 04:06:43
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Brad_Hawthorne
Someone set the jacks wrong. Those jacks are meant to hold the plane in place of the landing gear. I've used those sort of jacks before on like sized aircraft. Landing gear fairure in this case should be irrelevant if they set those jacks correctly. If anything they were using those jacks because they were performing maintenance and testing on the landing gear bringing the gear up and down while the aircraft was on the jacks.
Yes you're correct. Improper jacking or a massive jack failure. Write that aircraft off as a loss.....
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Re: FedEx plane falls off its jacks
2014/08/26 04:57:25
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I never knew EVGA was also a hangout for aeronautical engineering and maintenance experts.
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Re: FedEx plane falls off its jacks
2014/08/26 05:21:51
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You would be surprised who bought graphics cards........ It's only limited to nerds without jobs, seriously... The other people are just trolls. :-p
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Re: FedEx plane falls off its jacks
2014/08/26 06:20:01
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You would be surprised who bought graphics cards........ It's only limited to nerds without jobs, seriously... The other people are just trolls. :-p
I'd like you to know that I'm an exception to your rule. I'm a NERD with a job!
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Re: FedEx plane falls off its jacks
2014/08/26 06:20:58
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srtie4k
I never knew EVGA was also a hangout for aeronautical engineering and maintenance experts.
We have all kinds of tech background people here. Many of them are experts.
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Re: FedEx plane falls off its jacks
2014/08/26 22:09:40
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Here I am using similar jacks. Never mind that I'm standing on top of that B-47 answering a text.  Actually though...yes, we're all retards and trolls around here. It's just that we're employed retards and trolls with engineering degrees. In my particular case it's a Manufacturing Engineering degree. 
post edited by Brad_Hawthorne - 2014/08/26 22:19:14
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Re: FedEx plane falls off its jacks
2014/09/09 03:43:00
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA
Didn't jack high enough for the gear to clear, tape measure's work wonders.
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