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Westjet 737-700 pushed across the tarmac by strong winds

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
9 years 3 months 3 weeks ago

LiveLeak description:

An almost empty Westjet 737-700 was being pushed by strong winds across the tarmac. Some people don't realize how light an aircraft is.

Westjet went on to say this;

"This is truly a rare occurrence and even more rare to catch it on video. You really were at the right place at the right time! We are very happy with how our ground crew and TechOps AME (Aircraft Maintenance Engineer) handled this situation. Our AME (in the blue vest) was at the aircraft within 10 seconds and our ramp crews (yellow/orange vests) had all ground service equipment away from the aircraft within 40 seconds, which prevented any damage to the aircraft and kept our crews and guests safe while they secured the aircraft with a tug and tow bar. This video is a great reminder of the power of Mother Nature!"

8 Comments

AeroMechanical says...

I saw this sort of thing happen in big college parking lot once. There was freezing rain the night before, nobody salted, and there was a quarter inch of ice covering the entire surface. Then, at about 10 in the morning after 100 or so cars had arrived, it got REAL windy.

By the time I left at noon, cars were all over the place. Crashed into each other (doing serious damage), wedged together in improbable groupings. A few had even gone over the hill leading up to the lot.

Miraculously, my car was untouched and exactly where I left it. I believe this was because it was by far the crappiest car in the lot and generates a natural repellent force. Could have been all the rusted out holes in the bodywork too.

Could have been bad new if people were deplaning at that time.

Chaucer says...

Did the AME really think he could hold the aircraft in place?

This happened at the Halifax Airport in *Canada.

Adding video to channels (Canada) - requested by atara.

lol "dont worry guys i got this!"

Did the AME really think he could hold the aircraft in place?

jokingly says...

Look ma! No engines!

looks to me like it wasn't chocked properly. in conditions like that there should be double chocks on every wheel but i'm pretty certain they didn't even chock the rear wheels.

source: I've worked for UPS airport (ramp) operations for ten years.

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