Incidente abbastanza insolito, il poveretto che si è visto il piede "pestato" dal carrello anteriore di un 757 è ovviamente finito in ospedale con una bella frattura!
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Accident: United Airlines B752 at Los Angeles on May 31st 2011, nose wheel ran over foot of ground worker
By Simon Hradecky, created Friday, Jul 8th 2011 09:10Z, last updated Friday, Jul 8th 2011 09:11Z
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Accident: United Airlines B752 at Los Angeles on May 31st 2011, nose wheel ran over foot of ground worker
By Simon Hradecky, created Friday, Jul 8th 2011 09:10Z, last updated Friday, Jul 8th 2011 09:11Z
A United Airlines Boeing 757-200, registration N526UA performing flight UA-840 from Los Angeles,CA to Chicago O'Hare,IL (USA) with 182 passengers and 8 crew, was being pushed back and turned to a nose out position in the alley next to gate 70A, when the tow bar's shear pins fractured in the turn. Maintenance personnel arrived to assist in removing the stuck tow bar, when the airplane unexpectedly moved forward and overran the tow bar with a nose wheel rolling over a worker's foot.
The NTSB rated the occurrence an accident reporting that the worker received a fractured heel bone (calcaneal fracture). An investigation is underway.
The aircraft reached Chicago with a delay of 3:25 hours as a result of the accident.