Hangar Rash
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So that was your "Welcome to Purdue!" Ha, nice. I'm sure other people have done that, you must've been parked in the back row???
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#13
So the worst thing that has ever happen to me was pretty funny now that I look back on it.
I was 17 and was at my first line service job. We used a gas golf cart with a tow bar to move planes around. Well, it was one of those that you just had to press the gas to get it moving. So whenever we had the tow bar off, we'd stand it up in the passenger seat. Well, I was fueling an airplane, and the tow bar fell across the gas pedal, causing the cart to start up and take off. Well, being young and dumb, we had taken the restrictor plate off, and this thing could do about 25 to 30 mph and had enough cojones to pull King Air C90's. So the cart shoots off and takes out 2 172's tails, a 182's wing strut, and clipped a few cars and a few hangers before it ends up in the woods where it finally stopped. Needless to say it wasn't a good day. Best part, the owners didn't even mind, they got annuals out of it, and FBO owner couldn't stop laughing, as it took out his wife's car who he was divorcing the next week anyways. Good stuff.
I was 17 and was at my first line service job. We used a gas golf cart with a tow bar to move planes around. Well, it was one of those that you just had to press the gas to get it moving. So whenever we had the tow bar off, we'd stand it up in the passenger seat. Well, I was fueling an airplane, and the tow bar fell across the gas pedal, causing the cart to start up and take off. Well, being young and dumb, we had taken the restrictor plate off, and this thing could do about 25 to 30 mph and had enough cojones to pull King Air C90's. So the cart shoots off and takes out 2 172's tails, a 182's wing strut, and clipped a few cars and a few hangers before it ends up in the woods where it finally stopped. Needless to say it wasn't a good day. Best part, the owners didn't even mind, they got annuals out of it, and FBO owner couldn't stop laughing, as it took out his wife's car who he was divorcing the next week anyways. Good stuff.
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