Three Canadian Regional Jets were damaged in a surface incident that took place Monday at the new ASA maintenance base at the Baton Rouge Airport. Allegedly a "young mechanic" flipped an engine starter switch on an aircraft to slowly spin the compressor blades for cleaning when the engine immediately spooled up to takeoff power. This sent the CRJ hurling into two adjacent aircraft causing serious damage in a chaotic frenzy that took only five seconds. The aircraft involved were two CRJ-200s and a CRJ-700 that belong to Delta Connection partner Atlantic Southeast Airlines. Damage is reported to be around $100 million with one aircraft likely becoming a write-off. Fortunately no one was injured in the incident that involved the local Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting crew although one witness told WAFB that they were surprised the entire hangar didn't go up in flames. I'm looking forward to the pictures on this one.(WAFB)
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According to the airliners.net thread there are photos, but sites that post them keep getting takedown requests from the airline. There's currently a thread on flightaware that has them (maybe for a limited time): link.
Yeah, I've got copies of those photos, but I'm not sure I want that email from the ASA legal department. Good pics, though.
Can we get some registration numbers on the involved aircraft?
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