US Airways to get $1.8M in settlement

[JayBrian]

US Airways Group Inc. will receive $1.8 million in a legal settlement stemming from a de-icing incident at Philadelphia International Airport in February 2005, according to the law firm that handled the case.

The rest of the story can be read in the following link.

http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/charlotte....html?ana=yfcpc

 

[BoeingBoy]

Wonder how much it cost to repair that 330. Or did they total it. Either way, $1.8 million isn't much in comparison.

Jim

 

[PHL]

US has 9 A330-300's now, right? Didn't they have 10 at one point? 1.8M seems paltry if the aircraft was written off as a loss.

 

[700UW]

US only has ever only had nine A330-300s.

 

[nycbusdriver]

Wonder how much it cost to repair that 330. Or did they total it. Either way, $1.8 million isn't much in comparison.

Jim

US has 9 A330-300's now, right? Didn't they have 10 at one point? 1.8M seems paltry if the aircraft was written off as a loss.

Hook...line...sinker....

Don't you think there would have been a bit more notice taken if an A330 had been totaled on the ramp in PHL?

 

[PA18]

What about the employee who was injured? I seem to recall that it was pretty serious.

How has he made out, physically and financially?

 

[BoeingBoy]

Don't you think there would have been a bit more notice taken if an A330 had been totaled on the ramp in PHL?

I recall quite a bit of notice taken at the bent wing. That's why I asked if it had been repaired or totaled. At the deicing pad, BTW, not the ramp.

Jim

 

[JayBrian]

Here is a link to the original thread on this subject.

http://www.usaviation.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=18946

It appears the link to the pictures I posted to the former picture section of this website is now dead.

 

[nycbusdriver]

I recall quite a bit of notice taken at the bent wing. That's why I asked if it had been repaired or totaled. At the deicing pad, BTW, not the ramp.

Jim

And that slab of concrete on which the de-icing pad is built is known as a? Ramp.

 

[Dog Wonder]

I think it is called a deicing pad.

 

[BoeingBoy]

At least I finally found out who I'd occasionally hear asking to taxi to the deicing ramp.

I think the chart makers call it the deicing apron (see here) FWIW.

Jim

 

[stoopidute442]

I left US over two years ago...at that time the employee who was in the boom at the time had returned to work on light duty and from what I remember was just kinda waitin on a settlement. Nice guy, from tampa cant remember his name though.

 

[propdoc]

The aircraft was repaired by Airbus. Had a temoprary repair, then the permanent fix was accomplished at the Air Canada Technical Services facility in Montreal.