OOPS! Now, just how would you fix that?

[TruckDriver]

How the heck would you get that down without making the damage worse?

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1756&e=1&u=/060413/481/moex10104132114

[MassCharger73]

Place a 2006 Charger under the landing gear to break its fall.

[BigBlackDodge]

Unload the cargo........slowly. Or get the local weight watchers group to gather in the cockpit area one by one.

In the future, all air planes will have wheelie bars attached!

BBD

[bull]

According to their financial situation in that story the whole company is back heavy.

[472 R/T SE]

Looks like they could use a couple cranes.  One on each end,  .

[The Ghoul]

show it this

[Silver R/T]

giant fork lift

[mikepmcs]

secure the load right where it is.  harness the front and pull her down, structural integrity check on the rear(maybe a little sheet metal work)
check mains for bent broken tweaked parts, check nose for hard landing depending on how hard she comes down on the front when they lower it.  then next time get a milk crate like we do in the navy on c-130's to prevent this sort of thing from happening again.

[mikepmcs]

oh yeah when you got her held down with the harness, reposition the load or remove it.  just though i'd throw that in there cause i just know someone would have hammered me on that one.

[Telvis]

I'm sure nobody got fired over that!

[472 R/T SE]

I don't think I'd want to just let the front come down with no support and chance any more damage?

I say secure the plane and unload it(depending where the doors are)  If you go trying to upright it with apparently some heavy cargo in the rear, I would think the structural integrity of the plane would be stressed hard.

We did this one early Easter morning several years ago as a matter of fact.  Big Russian Cargo plane, this was it's only payload.  The plane had to stay on the tarmac until they got their money cause they couldn't afford to fuel the plane to leave.

Sorry for the picture quality, back then my camera was barely 1 megapixel.

[Charger_Fan]

Whenever I see a plane with a flip up nose like that, I always wonder if everyone got their coffee cups out of there before they lifted it.

What was the payload, Mike? I can't quite tell from here.

[John_Kunkel]

The Boeing 727 was well known for doing "wheelies".

Under certain unloaded fuel distribution configurations, as little as 600 lbs. of weight on the tail would drop the tail to the ground. It wasn't unusual for a 727 sitting out in a snowstorm to pick up the needed 600 pounds of snow and do a wheelie while unattended.

[Ponch ®]

show it this

[472 R/T SE]

I didn't realize that John.  That's not very much. 

I'll make sure to never let my wife sit in the back then next time we fly. 

[TruckDriver]

I didn't realize that John.  That's not very much. 

I'll make sure to never let my wife sit in the back then next time we fly. 

WOW!!! 

[Mike DC]

 
So they design a plane with the rear wheels too far forwards and it tips easily?

Man . . .

You'd think a plane designed with a bazillion redundant backup systems everywhere, and every connector & bolt being x-rayed for the slightest problem . . .

   

[hemi68charger]

Someone's in bigtime trouble.......... 

Troy