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Incident: 60 cm Panel Falls from KLM 777 onto Car on Departure from Osaka, Japan
A panel weighing around 4 kg fell off a plane shortly after takeoff Saturday at Kansai International Airport and hit a car on a road in Osaka, the transport ministry said. No one was injured by the object. The ministry will send safety inspectors to look into the cause of the mishap, officials said. The panel, about 60 cm long and 1 meter wide, fell from a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines plane that took off at 10:40 a.m. Saturday for Amsterdam, according to the Osaka bureau of the Land, Infrastructure,… (www.timesofisrael.com) المزيد...
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Happens more than you realize.
I know that, some cases even worse than this one, like the nose wheel coming off a passenger plane on take off.
Can we blame that on the mechanics? yes we can, once you secure every panel the way it is suppose to be, it will never ever will come apart, i am an A&P since 1968 and that never happened to me, you just has to be very careful working on any aircraft.
Thankfully this panel didn't fall off over North Korea, or little rocket man would've used the opportunity to blow another ICBM at some innocent fish.
Ha, ha, ha, that was good.
