deicer Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 That'll buff out.... http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/hyderabad-watches-a-plane-fall-onto-a-building-while-being-moved/411314 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conehead Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 What's the story behind that? Why were they lifting it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Being moved to serve as a static training aircraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blues deville Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Definitely static for the next little while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conehead Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 I guess it was a good training event in itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blues deville Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 3 hours ago, conehead said: I guess it was a good training event in itself. Do you mean a lesson about Newton's law of gravity or the one about hiring a bigger crane? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeker Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 These sort of crane accidents always surprise me. I met a guy once who operated a large crane and, according to him, a lot of planning and calculations go into deciding what can be lifted, what distance out from the crane's centre etc. It's not a seat-of-the-pants operation at all. Nothing gets lifted without knowing what it weighs and whether it's within capacity. I guess that's why he's never tipped one over and others have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conehead Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Crane Operator is a Red Seal Trade in Canada, requiring an apprenticeship, and all the training that goes along with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeker Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 33 minutes ago, conehead said: Crane Operator is a Red Seal Trade in Canada, requiring an apprenticeship, and all the training that goes along with that. Interesting, did not know that. Here's the list I found....shows mobile crane operator (which was type that dropped the 320) but don't see anything for stationary cranes. Red Seal Trades Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.O. Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Sheesh. Welcome to the land of the cheap shortcut. I could tell just by looking at it that the crane was nowhere near hefty enough for that task and I didn't need a Red Seal either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boestar Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 We had a crane operator hired to lift an engine off and a neww on on an aircraft. The height of the rafters in the hangar prevented him from doing it directly. After some walking and looking at what he could do, he put the crane through the rafters and into the correct spot so he could put it in the cradle and lift the new one. He nailed it dead nuts on when lifting it to the pylon. This guy was a pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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