NAS Alameda A4 Jet falls after crane lifting it tips over video.

[SkyvanDelta]

Some things in life are funny. Here's one of them.

This happened at the Alameda Naval Air Station, near San Francisco, a few months ago. The Jet had fallen off the tower during some high winds due to decay of the mounting hardware. A group of people got together and restored it. As it was being fitted to it's mount, the crane lifting it tips over and damages the plane worse than the original wind storm damages. Now it's been repaired and mounted properly.

Here's the video of the fall.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e2f_1327109301

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/san-francisco/crane-fails-placing-plane-pedestal-former-alameda-naval-144033686.html

[deepsky]

Re: NAS Alameda A4 Jet falls after crane lifting it tips over video.

Wow, that's a bummer!!!

[V1670]

Re: NAS Alameda A4 Jet falls after crane lifting it tips over video.

I remember when that happened. That created "negative pressure".
You'd think with the wet ground, they would've put down steel plates to distribute the weight. Oh well..........we live and learn (hopefully)

[spacegrrrl]

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[SkyvanDelta]

Re: NAS Alameda A4 Jet falls after crane lifting it tips over video.

There's 2 parts to the damages. Part 1 when the plane hits the ground. Part 2, which I think does more damage, the crane lands on top of it. And the restoring crew had just spent months or years restoring it. Murphys Law.

[AirDOGGe]

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yes, the worst was the crane boom striking the vertical fin.

Here's some pics of said tail after having been removed from the newly-damaged A-4:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bunaen/6311826030/

And here's the Skyhawk again with a replacement tail, still unpainted:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bunaen/6311827582/in/photostream/

[Eric J.]

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That was quite a noise coming from the crane when things started heading south.

[Roger Cain]

Re: NAS Alameda A4 Jet falls after crane lifting it tips over video.

Just to follow up this post the plane was repaired and put back on it's Pedestal on Dec. 20th, 2011

http://www.action-alameda-news.com/2011/12/21/a-4-skyhawk-back-at-alameda-point/