Man climbs over fence at McCarran airport in Las Vegas and climbs up onto airplane wing

[PimTac]

This happened yesterday. Obviously the man is out of his senses. The ending looks like he did a face plant on the tarmac. As if airline pilots didn’t have enough things to think about.

Man arrested after climbing wing of plane at Las Vegas airport is homeless, mentally ill

UPDATE: Following an investigation, Las Vegas police determined the man arrested after climbing an airplane wing at McCarran airport is homeless and suffers from a mental illness, according to a

www.fox5vegas.com

 

[DuckRyder]

Doesn’t look like anything a maximum performance takeoff wouldn’t solve...

 

[Kira]

1) He wanted to impress Jodi Foster. (bad)
2) Do airplanes so violated need to go through an additional pre-flight inspection?
3) Couldn't they have shot him off the wing like a squirrel from a bird feeder?

 

[wpod]

Airport security?

 

[2strokeNorthstar]

Coincidentally going to Portland?

 

[PimTac]

Airport security?

He climbed over the perimeter fence. I’m guessing that is going to get looked at.

 

[skyactiv]

Airport security?

Someone was complacent.
I wonder if the offender will be charged federally?

 

[aquariuscsm]

2) Do airplanes so violated need to go through an additional pre-flight inspection?

Haha I would actually be concerned about flying on that plane after having that nut job stomping all over the wing!!

 

[walterjay]

I would hope there was an inspection of the wing before flying.

 

[wpod]

Haha I would actually be concerned about flying on that plane after having that nut job stomping all over the wing!!

Airliner aren't built with fabric wings. though I would guess some one will look at it.

 

[DuckRyder]

Haha I would actually be concerned about flying on that plane after having that nut job stomping all over the wing!!

Then there was the 900 lbs of cops....

Of course that probably doesn't even register compared to the forces it is under during flight....

 

[Passport1]

If he wasn't wearing a mask he would have gotten tossed off the aircraft anyways.

 

[aquariuscsm]

Then there was the 900 lbs of cops....

Of course that probably doesn't even register compared to the forces it is under during flight....

Haha even more damage!

 

[PimTac]

Airliner aren't built with fabric wings. though I would guess some one will look at it.

Many aircraft wings I’ve seen have “Step Here” or something to that effect stenciled on the wing itself. I don’t think you can go dancing over the wing like that fool was doing. I saw one cop on that wing. He was probably instructed where to step.

Astro would know for certain and I’ll bet the plane went back for a inspection.

 

[Astro14]

I don’t walk on wings any more. Used to step on the back of the F-14 as part of routine preflight inspection.

Most of the wing on an airliner is OK to walk on. It’s skinned with thin aluminum alloy, but with structure underneath. The fragile spots are usually stenciled “NO STEP” as a reminder.

The mechanics will look for damage in the form of dents or deformation. Fairly easy to see with the naked eye.

Dents have an allowable specification, like less than 1/8” deep over less than two square inches, or something like that, to be good to go. If they exceed whatever the specifications are, then the airplane must be repaired before flight.

 

[4WD]

Coincidentally going to Portland?

That wing is an autonomous zone … like the 3 hots and a cot place he’ll “occupy“ for a while …

 

[Lubener]

D.B. Cooper?

 

[KGMtech]

He was flying on something.

 

[DuckRyder]

...one cop on that wing. ...

00:56-:0057 at least 3....

 

[Dave Hess]

Pilots should have taken off , climb to 10,000 feet and turn the yoke left and right very quickly to shake the guy off the wing.