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[craig]

This looks fun. Shows just how vulnerable a bottleneck like this is.

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There is talk on the radio about fuel costs going up because of this. Robbing b`s fuel on the forecourts passed through weeks ago.

 

[V8Druid]

This looks fun. Shows just how vulnerable a bottleneck like this is.

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saw it this morning ... been there since Tuesday apparently with a hell of a queue each end .. they interviewed a merchant seaman's rep of some sort ... didn't catch who he was ... said it's likely that it was an inexperienced captain and severe side winds caused it and takes some controlling in a sidewind
going to cause chaos for some time BTLs

The Suez Canal Is Clogged By An Absolutely Huge Ship

Ever Given, a quarter-mile long, ran aground in the busy Egyptian waterway, causing a traffic jam of at least 100 vessels.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

 

[V8Druid]

Where did you find this Graham? What is described here as the cause of the accident is not what happened in real life.

The aircraft was performing a high power engine run with all four engines operating. It is normal that apart from setting the parking brake, wheel chocks are also used. In this case they were not present.

The amount of thrust the engines were operating at was on the limit for the “holding power” of the parking brake system. Especially when the aircraft is light, as in this case because there is less weight on the wheels. Hence a reduction in parking brake capacity.

An A340-600 has three sets of main gears, 2 under the wings and 1 under the fuselage. In addition there is the nose gear but this has no brakes. When setting the parking brake this sends pressure between 2600-3100 psi to the brakes. But only to the brakes on landing gears under the wings!

When the aircraft started moving they released the parking brake and took used manual brakes. A manual brake input sends brake pressure (2600-3100psi) to all main landing gear. This should have stopped the aircraft.

However they also tried to steer the aircraft away from the wall by using the nose wheel steering. If you use a nose wheel steering angle over 20 degrees then the brake pressure to the landing gear under the fuselage (middle)is released to reduce stress on the landing gear leg.

At no point did they reduce the thrust on the engines and this combined with the steering input resulted in the accident.

No circuit breakers were pulled but some procedures were not correctly followed.View attachment 23331

sent to me by a mate, in 2009 who had some involvement, somewhere along the line ... tripped over the email the other night looking for something else from him in me archive files.

 

[JD450A]

This looks fun. Shows just how vulnerable a bottleneck like this is.

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I like the optimist with the digger

 

[Mogman]

I like the optimist with the digger

I think we need a trip over there with a few chains and get salvage rights would set us up for life

 

[Lancs Lad]

I think we need a trip over there with a few chains and get salvage rights would set us up for life

I'm in...bottle jack's and sleepers.

 

[V8Druid]

I'm in...bottle jack's and sleepers.

just get @Rob65 to bring some of his stock in trade along

 

[JD450A]

I think we need a trip over there with a few chains and get salvage rights would set us up for life

I'm in....

 

[Grahams]

When you see how much it has ridden out of the water it is going to take some shifting. Got to be 18 foot of red antifouling showing.

 

[Mogman]

When you see how much it has ridden out of the water it is going to take some shifting. Got to be 18 foot of red antifouling showing.

Ok lads more chains and a few more sleepers

 

[pettsy]

I like the optimist with the digger

Just give it a shove

 

[T whiting]

It must've been well aground you would assume that they've ditched any ballast water they had on and it's still not floating I hate to think of the cost of trying to get some of the containers off in the middle of nowhere

 

[Antony Holmes]

this must be costing millions per day and we have 1 loading shovel on site

 

[Mogman]

this must be costing millions per day and we have 1 loading shovel on site

It’s start

 

[Lancs Lad]

It’s start

When do we leave? Armed with the mogatsu and a druid barge we laughin.

 

[GazCro]

When do we leave? Armed with the mogatsu and a druid barge we laughin.

Is there time to get another coat of paint on before you go

 

[Antony Holmes]

It’s start

to be fair that shovel looks like a tonka against that ship. what size of Crain would be needed to lift containers at that height

 

[V8Druid]

to be fair that shovel looks like a tonka against that ship. what size of Crain would be needed to lift containers at that height

a FERKIN BIG one ..... not so much the height as the reach... probably have derricks on board that'd handle some, to drop 'em over the side onto barges .... but a drop in the ocean, weight wise .... could always use a floating crane, but the timescale'd be horrendous
be better getting @Rob65 to go blow it out the bank .... or create a hole around it to flood it out

 

[Rob65]

I would have thought grab a couple of the waiting nearby ships, get em rigged together with some big and stretchy rope and full steam ahead for a ‘snatch’ kinetic recovery.
It’s coincidental that the Mogatsu and a Druid barge were mentioned I was talking to someone today about a job that needs such a combination. Mog, if you might be interested I’ll PM you ?

 

[modelman093]

I guess that it has one of those bulbous bows sticking out the front and now buried in the bank somewhere under that dinky sized wheel loader.