The Weather Channel was showing clips of this all night. They weren't attributing it to a specific airline though. I didn't know it was an AA cart until coming on Flyertalk this morning. Absolutely Hilarious.
It seems I'm the minority opinion, but to me it clearly hit the nose gear door on the last circle. I hope they grounded it until the maintenance check was done.
Millions might be a bit of an exaggeration but it would have easily been in the hundreds of thousands of dollars if not low million dollar range. It looked like it was heading right towards the nose cone which houses expensive navigation equipment. Plus you have to consider the lost revenue while the aircraft is being repaired, costs to reroute pax, etc. It all adds up pretty quickly.
Millions might be a bit of an exaggeration but it would have easily been in the hundreds of thousands of dollars if not low million dollar range. It looked like it was heading right towards the nose cone which houses expensive navigation equipment. Plus you have to consider the lost revenue while the aircraft is being repaired, costs to reroute pax, etc. It all adds up pretty quickly.
Just a heads up. Only thing in the nose cone is the radar. No expensive navigation related equipment at all.
Sep 30, 2019, 10:54 pm
