Worst workplace incident/accident?
Discussion
I'll start with a couple of mine.
1st.
Working in an aircraft maintenance facility someone had inadvertently connected up the wrong Hydraulic servicing rig.
This particular rig had no relief valve and relied on the aircrafts own systems to keep the pressure in limits.
Unfortunately the aircraft it had been connected to didn't have a relief valve in its own system.......anyway eventually as the system pressure built and built........BANG.....the loudest bang I've ever experienced and I was a long way from ground zero.
A Hydraulic accumulator in the nose gear bay had exploded in spectacular fashion if anyone had been in there working it would have been game over.
The other that I was not present for but heard the story from flight crew.
After starting the engines a ground handler had removed the plug for the ground power unit and then had bent down to remove the chocks from the nose wheels. .......apparently he banged his head quite hard on the nose gear door and dazed had staggered backwards into the propeller........the crew felt a thud and shudder on the flight deck. ....
Shutdown......police.... hse.....the works.
1st.
Working in an aircraft maintenance facility someone had inadvertently connected up the wrong Hydraulic servicing rig.
This particular rig had no relief valve and relied on the aircrafts own systems to keep the pressure in limits.
Unfortunately the aircraft it had been connected to didn't have a relief valve in its own system.......anyway eventually as the system pressure built and built........BANG.....the loudest bang I've ever experienced and I was a long way from ground zero.
A Hydraulic accumulator in the nose gear bay had exploded in spectacular fashion if anyone had been in there working it would have been game over.
The other that I was not present for but heard the story from flight crew.
After starting the engines a ground handler had removed the plug for the ground power unit and then had bent down to remove the chocks from the nose wheels. .......apparently he banged his head quite hard on the nose gear door and dazed had staggered backwards into the propeller........the crew felt a thud and shudder on the flight deck. ....
Shutdown......police.... hse.....the works.
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