Maintenance Mishap Damages Emirates A380

Maintenance Mishap Damages Emirates A380

Aaron Hilsz-Lothian·
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A maintenance mishap has left an Emirates Airbus A380-800 with serious damage to its nose and surrounding structure.

The aircraft, registered A6-EOP, was undergoing a routine maintenance check when the aircraft collapsed onto its nose.

Occurring at an Emirates maintenance hangar at Dubai International Airport, the accident has left the aircraft with a torn/crumpled fuselage and structural damage.

Maintenance Mishap Damages Emirates A380

It’s understood the aircraft slipped off a hydraulic jack, crushing the nose, gear doors and jamming the gear assembly upwards.

Once raised off the ground, a thorough check will be conducted to determine the full extent of the damage.

Built in 2015, as MSN200, the aircraft has actively been in service with the airline, powering through the skies with four Engine Alliance GP7200 engines.

A6-EOP
A6-EOP at Birmingham

No injuries have been reported so far, however as more information is provided this post will be updated.

Updates

It’s being recorded that this accident happened on the 22nd of August and may have been caused by a gear retraction without the pin in place.

Information sourced from Twitter and the Aviation Safety Network.

Aaron Hilsz-Lothian

Based in Sydney Australia, Aaron currently works as as a load control planner among the regional operation centre of a major airline. In addition to this, he has multiple years of experience in a frontline aviation environment including ramp, customer acceptance and freight. Writing casually for Sam Chui since 2018, he intends to use his experience in the industry to answer everyday questions that passengers often ponder and to shed light on the complex systems that make aviation so fascinating.

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13 Responses

  1. Gear retraction with weight on is impossible I suspect there is more to the real story which may or may not come out. I have flown on this very plane, at least twice and hope the damage is minor and it returns to service quickly. If not, it will be a big hole in their scheduling.

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    1. Yes, this is possible. Just have to bypass the air/ground switch which maintenance personnel are allowed to do to troubleshoot the landing gear.

  2. If the reports are correct and a large number of 380 orders have been cancelled, the future building of them to be scrapped then Emirates is probably not going to be in a rush to repair this one.

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  3. FUSELEGE .
    ONCE THE EMIRATES 380 DOUBLE DECKER 😊THE CAREER WAS TRYING TO TAKEOFF ON THE RUNWAY .AND THE PILOT WAS DOUBTING ABT THE SOME FUSELEGE PROBLEM.AND HE WAS IMMEDIATELY STOPPED 😑AFTER SOME CORRECTION AND HE PLANNED TO TAKE OFF ..

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  5. Who’s gonna feel comfortable flying on this one in the future after Vinnie gets done fixing it and gives it a salvage title?

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  6. The wheels can’t retract when the weight on wheels sensor detects weight. Was this bypased and then someone had the wheels retracted? If so then that is a long chain of things that went wrong, someone seriously fucked up.

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  8. Management is probably like “wohoo! We get to write off one of these giant planes we can never fill and we barely make any money on so we can buy a two 787 instead”. Glad no injuries.

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    1. Emirates fills their A380s. I was on 3 A380s in the last week and all of them fully booked. 2 of them in 2 Class config with 615 Seats. And flown on many fully booked a380 flights before aswell.

  10. Ouch. Hopefully it can be repaired, but if damaged beyond repair, it will be sad because the airframe is fairly young.

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