Taxi Fail

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 5:49 am

link?

bizjets101 · Post by **bizjets101** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 6:38 am

Jan 10/2011 Owned by Safair operating for Africa-Air Charter - Boeing 737-200 ZS-SGX at Hoedspruit Air Force Base Airport South Africa.

Whilst taxiing for departure runway 18 in darkness, the pilots apparently missed a turn onto taxiway "Charlie". Upon realizing their mistake, they tried to turn the 737 around on using reverse thrust. During this maneuver the aircraft ran backwards beyond the edge of the taxiway and rolled down an embankment into the bush. There were no report´s about any injuries on board.

http://www.flyafrica.info/forums/showth ... r-incident

http://saairforce.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3222

CL-Skadoo! · Post by **CL-Skadoo!** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 7:12 am

Hehe you beat bizjets to it. He must be slipping.

bizjets101 · Post by **bizjets101** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:19 am

I rarely post airliner stuff unless it's a major accident or Canadian content.

The B737 above was reported on all the airliner accident sites - JACDEC, ASN, Aviation Herald.

But I appreciate the ribbing!!!

iflyforpie · Post by **iflyforpie** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 4:05 pm

Airbus wouldn't have got stuck... (been on too many 4x4 forums lately).

kiloindiapapa · Post by **kiloindiapapa** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 6:19 pm

WTF!!?? Those "roads" barley classify as a taxiway. He really missed the mark. Whats with all the trees?

StudentPilot · Post by **StudentPilot** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 11:20 pm

kiloindiapapa wrote:Whats with all the trees?

Must be someone's way to make the airport more eco-friendly...

bizjets101 · Post by **bizjets101** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:32 am

Location of Accident

Captain was a high time retired South African Airways pilot. The B737 missed a turn to the runway at night, in pouring rain - when they came to a dead end they attempted to turn around using the reverse thrust and misjudged the turn.

Hoedspruit Air Force Base civilian side is known as Eastgate Airport, the airport is in the center of a 25 square kilometer game reserve. The military keep 3 cheetahs on the flightline to keep the other wildlife away!!!, airplane/animal collision decreased by 90 percent with the addition of the cheetahs.

On the same day as this B737 accident, another B737 that took off earlier - had a birdstrike in an engine and had to make an emergency return landing.

As a military airport, the strange taxiways lead to underground hangars.

The runway at Hoedspruit is also an emergency NASA shuttle landing site.

Adam Oke · Post by **Adam Oke** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 9:12 am

bizjets101 wrote: Hoedspruit Air Force Base civilian side is known as Eastgate Airport, the airport is in the center of a 25 square kilometer game reserve. The military keep 3 cheetahs on the flightline to keep the other wildlife away!!!, airplane/animal collision decreased by 90 percent with the addition of the cheetahs.

Too cool. I'd be a little worried doing my walk around in the middle of the night though....

bizjets101 · Post by **bizjets101** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:48 am

DITHOLO, South Africa -- Capt. Jenny Christian gets up close and personal with one of three cheetahs that roam the South African flightline here. The cheetahs keep the runway free of small mammals that sometimes wander in the way of landing aircraft. Captain Christian is deployed from Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England.

Note photo source Click Here

GreenRookie · Post by **GreenRookie** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:50 am

Crazy! cheetahs for bodyguards, underground hangers....just crazy!

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