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PERTH ENGINEER
HIT BY LIGHTNING
Australia: The Cleanest Third-World
Country On The Planet
In Singapore, and other places, the Ground Engineers use wireless headsets to talk to Pilots. There is a just a moment when the sender device is plugged into the com box on the nose gear where contact is made. It allows the Engineer to sit in air conditioned comfort of the tug cabin, walk around to observe hatch closures, or stand out of the heavy rain. In Perth, Australia they use last century's technology … attaching the Engineer by a wire.
Perth Airport Photo
All is good, until lightning hits the aircraft which happened to this poor b@stard in November 2014.
Read about it here http://tinyurl.com/ATSB-lightning
Whilst the operator is "investigating" wireless headsets, it's about time Australia joined the new century. Make them mandatory.
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