Re: Crew Stranded After Cargo Plane Falls On Its Tail

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Don't know, but it inconceivable to think of such an aircraft without access
to a tailstand. They don't travel with the aircraft, so they're a station
item.

A tailstand's importance cannot be overestimated. Firstly, the danger posed
to the static aircraft during load/offload operations with the tipping at the
stern of the ship & the load shifting.

Think  also of the speculation concerning the many-years-ago damage (blown on
its tail at the Toulouse Airbus factory) alleged to have happened to the AA
Airbus that crashed in the Rockaways late last year. Could this have caused a
"crinkle" or defect in the tail assembly that deepened into the occasion of
an ultimately fatal flaw in the crash?

Mike
SFO

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