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Military crew meals

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 3:42 pm
by Boac
Anyone fancy a bit of bird for lunch? https://www.airlive.net/alert-a-raf-a40 ... e-fuselage

I reckon it killed the bird.

Re: Military crew meals

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 3:58 pm
by ian16th
Rigger!

Re: Military crew meals

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 4:29 pm
by Pontius Navigator
Read the small print under the panel.

Re: Military crew meals

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 5:56 pm
by Boac
It's very odd panel damage. I cannot see what caused the major disruption 'outwards' apart from a possible tiny ingress in front of it. Any engineers comment?

Re: Military crew meals

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 6:19 pm
by Pontius Navigator
I expanded the image. The front of the hole shows the panel punched in. The peel back shows blood smear top and bottom. I would conjecture that the bird hit the static cylinder, moved it out slightly and airflow did the rest.

Re: Military crew meals

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 6:23 pm
by Wodrick
That component is an ADM (Air Data Module) the back end of a pitot port, it looks to me like it has twatted the pitot head and torn it out of the structure.
Needs more than a hose down and HS Tape 😀
Just an opinion.

Re: Military crew meals

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 6:43 pm
by Pontius Navigator
Wodrick, that was my first thought except the panel appears to have three static vents. I think the pitot are further aft. There is a second static port panel hidden by the peel back. You can just make out the upper of the starboard pitot on the left. There is a good port side image of 412 on Google, the rest of the image is worth looking at too :)

Found a starboard side one here

https://australianaviation.com.au/wp-co ... M-2_PS.jpg

Re: Military crew meals

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 7:40 pm
by Boac
I think, on reflection, we need to see the radome. I theorise. Large flock of large birds. Entry of one or more through radome and out as shown, others strike fuselage side?

Re: Military crew meals

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 7:45 pm
by TheGreenGoblin
I feel a METAR is called for here. Another question surely must be whether or not the bird had been cleared by ATC into controlled airspace?

So many feathers, so few answers!

Re: Military crew meals

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 7:51 pm
by Boac
I do think the A400 might be a bit flimsy! Another 'plastic' Airbus?

TGG - I hear that ATC told the birds to turn left onto 180 but they said they were 'comfortable' and ignored that. The RAF is to hold a bird of enquiry.

Re: Military crew meals

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 8:21 pm
by TheGreenGoblin
Boac wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 27, 2020 7:51 pm
I do think the A400 might be a bit flimsy! Another 'plastic' Airbus?

TGG - I hear that ATC told the birds to turn left onto 180 but they said they were 'comfortable' and ignored that. The RAF is to hold a bird of enquiry.
:))

Re: Military crew meals

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 10:20 pm
by Wodrick
Boac wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 27, 2020 7:51 pm
I do think the A400 might be a bit flimsy!
I agree very light material.
OK I've looked at other pictures it is a static port, so it's flush, nothing to pick up on, and it does look inside to outside apart from the dents ahead.
I was going to say that it would never get through the pressure bulkhead but then watching TV blankly, I recalled that it had happened before to a different type, flight deck incursion, quite a mess and it was a brown flight deck so 75 or 76, think a 757.

Re: Military crew meals

Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 7:13 am
by Pontius Navigator
If you look again you will see that the upper right hand corner of the Static panels has been pushed in and the left hand side pushed out.

It looks as if the penetration was just above the Static port box, slightly lower and i would have expected the box to have been pushed in. The heaviest blood smear appears to be on the aft side of the box and the smeared up and left along the outside. It looks like a single plug on the box had been ripped off.

Re: Military crew meals

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 7:58 am
by om15
Be interesting to know what altitude this occurred at and what the pressure differential was. Looks like impact puncture on the forward edge of the damaged area, skin blown out by differential and torn backwards by airflow.
Possibly.

Re: Military crew meals

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 8:15 am
by Pontius Navigator
" What happened to number 14? "

"Dunno, planestrike?"

"Well I did squawk"

"Yes, I heard your honking"

"Must have been a bit low on the turn"