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Offline onesierrawhiskey

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KAL257 strikes ground vehicle at JFK. One injured.
« on: June 09, 2009, 01:36:19 AM »
Korean Air Lines Flight 257, a boeing 747-400, struck a ground vehicle while taxing to a gate at JFK shortly after arriving from Anchorage.

Clip is from Archive, starts with the KAL rollout, taxi instructions, strike occurs at 5:10 of the recording. Lots of dead space, sorry, no editor handy at the time.



Offline UAramper

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Re: KAL257 strikes ground vehicle at JFK. One injured.
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2009, 05:04:43 PM »
Planes always have the right of way on the ramp, except for emergency vehicles with lights flashing. Someone made an oops.

Offline mikedemon

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hi WS and hi all

this is my first post here,

 i edited the audio for ya... made it 5 mins long :)

« Last Edit: June 10, 2009, 02:42:50 PM by mikedemon »

Offline bphendri

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Re: KAL257 strikes ground vehicle at JFK. One injured.
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2009, 04:18:07 PM »
Day in the life of a KAL pilot.

Offline onesierrawhiskey

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Re: KAL257 strikes ground vehicle at JFK. One injured.
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2009, 04:14:06 AM »
This sounds much better, thanks so much!

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Re: KAL257 strikes ground vehicle at JFK. One injured.
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2009, 09:37:23 AM »
anytime ;) :)

Offline DaytonaAirport

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Re: KAL257 strikes ground vehicle at JFK. One injured.
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2009, 03:10:47 AM »
Planes always have the right of way on the ramp, except for emergency vehicles with lights flashing. Someone made an oops.
Always? I heard fighter jets and small planes having no ramp at all.

Offline joeyb747

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Re: KAL257 strikes ground vehicle at JFK. One injured.
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2009, 09:09:20 PM »
Planes always have the right of way on the ramp, except for emergency vehicles with lights flashing. Someone made an oops.
Always? I heard fighter jets and small planes having no ramp at all.

What??

ALL moving aircraft have the right of way over all vehicles except emergency and opps vehicles with lights flashing...UAramper is 100% correct here.

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Re: KAL257 strikes ground vehicle at JFK. One injured.
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2009, 05:16:29 AM »
Also when you thinking about it, it's a lot easier to stop a car/truck than it is to stop a massive aircraft   :wink:

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Re: KAL257 strikes ground vehicle at JFK. One injured.
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2009, 02:18:56 PM »
Interesting, but I don't see the resolution, and I wonder why he hit it exactly.  Sounds like it was parked, but I doubt it should have been parked where it was if it was possible for an aircraft to strike it...no?

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Re: KAL257 strikes ground vehicle at JFK. One injured.
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2009, 04:35:39 PM »
One of my favs:


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Re: KAL257 strikes ground vehicle at JFK. One injured.
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2009, 01:08:24 PM »
Whoa.... Gives you an idea of how stout the leading edge of the wing is on this aircraft.   It's also a good thing there were no walkers around that truck while it was waiting to service the aircraft..