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Qantas 787 Flight Flew With 4 Covered Static Ports
A Qantas 787 was found to have four of its engine static ports taped up on a flight used to transport freight from from Melbourne to Los Angeles. (www.gatechecked.com) 更多...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
PFO flight. Pre-Flight Optional
“Kick the tyres and light the fires!”
used to have flight engineer position. That was his job.
What happened to the "Remove Before Flight" flags? Were they never installed or did they fly off en-route?
Incident & your comment reminds me of watching F-15’s, F-4’s, B-52’s in videos performing a ‘No Notice’ Alert w/Ground Crew jumping all over the place to grab & remove those tags.
It looks like they came off in route. The left inboard picture has some tape that looks ripped with blank spots where the flags may have been.
Years ago while on the ramp I saw one of my glider club's G-103 gliders ready to launch via aerotow and observed black squares I knew to be tape over the two starboard side static ports. I ran across the ditch, the taxiway and grass while trying to alert the pilot who saw me and pulled his release stopping the launch. He had only moved the tapes to uncover the pinholes and not removed them for storage in the cockpit side pocket as was our custom!