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Minden midair Hawker now up for bid
Just FYI, USAIG has placed the Hawker 800 bizjet involved in last
year's midair collision up for bid. The web page for the salvage auction contains new photos of the damage, but they don't show anything you wouldn't expect: http://www.usau.com/USAU.nsf/Doc/1998Hawker800XP,N879QS Except maybe, it does seem a bit odd to me that they still haven't extracted the Schleicher wing spar from the nose. But, eh, what do I know? Thanks, Bob K. |
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Minden midair Hawker now up for bid
On Feb 15, 12:03 pm, "Bob Kuykendall" wrote:
Just FYI, USAIG has placed the Hawker 800 bizjet involved in last year's midair collision up for bid. The web page for the salvage auction contains new photos of the damage, but they don't show anything you wouldn't expect: http://www.usau.com/USAU.nsf/Doc/1998Hawker800XP,N879QS Except maybe, it does seem a bit odd to me that they still haven't extracted the Schleicher wing spar from the nose. But, eh, what do I know? Thanks, Bob K. That's the 'as is, where is' bit. Frank |
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Minden midair Hawker now up for bid
http://www.usau.com/USAU.nsf/Doc/1998Hawker800XP,N879QS
From previous images I do not recall seeing damage except to the nose/ cockpit from impact and the belly damage from the gear up landing. Does anyone know if the damages to the right wing root, the horizontal, and nacelle are from the midair, or from later damage at landing? [or recovery] I suppose the damage to the horizontal could easily have happened with nose parts going back. The wing root damage looks like more extensive damage than I understood from the glider impact. any guesses? Chris |
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Minden midair Hawker now up for bid
On Feb 15, 12:00 pm, "chris" wrote:
I suppose the damage to the horizontal could easily have happened with nose parts going back. The wing root damage looks like more extensive damage than I understood from the glider impact. any guesses? This picture taken on the runway at Carson City clearly shows the damage to the right side wing root, so it was definitely not recovery- induced: http://www.hpaircraft.com/misc/14nx6a.jpg However, I don't know whether that damage occurred in the collision or in the gear-up landing that followed. But I would say that it is consistent with collision with the sailplane. Based on the features of the wing spar portion still protruding from the nose below the port windshield, I'd say that that's the portion of the spar just inboard of the planform break where the outboard wing panel attaches: http://www.hpaircraft.com/misc/11dy6a.jpg The fifth panel from the top in this image from the Alexander- Schleicher web site shows the longitudinal pin in that spanwise area: http://www.alexander-schleicher.de/p...g29_leiste.jpg This frontal photo of the Hawker suggest a line of damage from lower (viewer's) left to upper right, which I think is consistent with a sailplane turning left and struck head-on, or turning right and struck from behind: http://www.hpaircraft.com/misc/dscf0034vm0a.jpg This conjecture is supported by damage to the hawker's starboard wing and port horizontal stabilizer. Based on that, my guess is that the fuselage of the glider (most of it, at least) passed below the Hawker's starboard wing. Further, I would speculate that the damage just forward of the port windshield is heavier than that done further starboard due to the greater mass concentration of the glider's outboard wing panel attachment structure and mechanism. Here's the NTSB synopsis of the accident: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...06X01297&key=1 It pretty much supports my speculation. Thanks, Bob K. |
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Minden midair Hawker now up for bid
I find it interesting that the approach plates are still in the
cockpit on the right yoke. I suppose the crew was just happy to get out of the airplane after a safe landing and didn't much care for trivialities like gathering up paperwork. I was also surprise at the amount of other damage to the right wing, the left horizontal stabilizer and the right engine cowling. Looks like they finally got the gear down. - John |
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Minden midair Hawker now up for bid
It looks like part of the Schleicher's spar is still embedded in the
Hawker's nose. Now for all you lawyers out there, do purchasers of the Hawker wreckage have rights to Schleicher parts embedded therein? |
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