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Aircraft:
Boeing 747-422
- Reg: N196UA full info | N196UA photos
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Serial #:
28715
- Airline: United Airlines
- Photo Date: Aug 16, 2005
- Uploaded: Aug 17, 2005
- San Francisco Int'l Airport - KSFO, USA - California
Oops! The body gear steering on this one partially collapsed during hydraulic tests, causing the plane to tilt backward onto its tail!
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Oops! The body gear steering on this one partially collapsed during hydraulic tests, causing the plane to tilt backward onto its tail!Camera
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- Reg: N196UA full info | N196UA photos
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Aircraft:
Boeing 747-422
- Airline: United Airlines
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Serial #:
28715
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San Francisco Int'l Airport - KSFO
- USA - California
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Too much water in the rear ballast! Surface! Surface!
I thought at first it could be of the trim tanks in the empennage, that they didn´t deplete this tanks. But i absoluteley can´t imagine that the pilots forget it. But it could be that they did some tests on the ground during wich this zero speed crash happened. It could be, but i don´t know.
I'm confused about how this happened... I don't understand enough about the nuts and bolts... What is "body gear steering" and how does it's failure make the plane tip back like this? Was the plane tail heavy?