737 spun by wind

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Gog said:
I hope it costs them a fortune to fix.
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there's no question of that. Aircraft are hideously expensive. i reckon a couple hundred thousad to fix! :eek:

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bare in mind that the entire plane must (well, should) be reinspected for airworthyness!
 
ouch, very very expensive job to fix that - did dispatch job myself up at the local airport and belfast and during our training we were told that the skin on aircraft is only the thickness of a sheet of paper but obviously made with very strong stuff! So easy to break though and always many aircraft getting whacked with baggage carts.
 
Wont be much, looks superficial... probably just another panel will be riveted on.

What will cost them is the unscheduled maintenance.
 
It'll T-Cut out :D

Seriously though, it is quite scary how something like that can happen! Makes you appreciate the marvels of how they make them if the skin really is that thin, yet absorbs the stress that it does (In the air, anyways)
 
TimBrad said:
It'll T-Cut out :D

Seriously though, it is quite scary how something like that can happen! Makes you appreciate the marvels of how they make them if the skin really is that thin, yet absorbs the stress that it does (In the air, anyways)
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The skin shouldn't experience that much force, not on the walls anyway. The streamlines will run parallel to the walls of the plane and as we all know, there is no force perpendicular to a streamline!
 
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