Aircraft Versus Airport

[Windjammer]

Effect on the hard tile area during a high power engine run up by a Shaheen Air Boeing 737-400 at Sialkot airport, Some tough tiles can be seen resting on Boeing's dented port side horizontal stabilizer.

 

[acetophenol]

Poor airport construction?Or was the pilot and the plane at the wrong place?

 

[Kloitra]

Poor airport construction?Or was the pilot and the plane at the wrong place?

Doesn't seems like an area meant for what the plane was doing. Wrong place apparently.

 

[Indus Falcon]

Poor airport construction?Or was the pilot and the plane at the wrong place?

Poor construction.Sailkot airport if I'm not mistaken was constructed with private funds.

 

[$@rJen]

What the hell.... those tiles are on the wing of the plane???

 

[Windjammer]

Poor construction.Sailkot airport if I'm not mistaken was constructed with private funds.

Doesn't seems like an area meant for what the plane was doing. Wrong place apparently.

Poor airport construction?Or was the pilot and the plane at the wrong place?

A Boeing 747 once did just that at JFK Airport.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Poor airport construction?Or was the pilot and the plane at the wrong place?

The former is the reason. Paving blocks remain in position through two reasons, the interlocking construction and their own weight. Which is why they are used only on low load density construction, like kerb-sides, road margins, parking areas. The exact same blocks have been used by me in my drive-way, but will not be used on the main road intersection. It is unwise to use it on an Airport Apron. As has been shown in the pictures above.
The supreme irony is that the cost of repairs to the Aircraft skin Surface will cost many times more than to repair the damaged paving. The paved area will just get levelled out again, the paving blocks re-laid and tamped down by a heavy vibratory Tamper; as simple as that.

Just imagine if some of the loose blocks were ingested into the Compressor Stage of the Aircraft Engines?

 

[Kloitra]

A Boeing 747 once did just that at JFK Airport.

Same thing. Why would someone blow the engine full power on paving blocks?

 

[Thorough Pro]

These are loose "---crete" tiles, just placed on flattened earth or grass for a creating a quick walkway, these are not meant to be used as parking testing of Boeing 747's. Who allowed that plane to even go there?

Effect on the hard tile area during a high power engine run up by a Shaheen Air Boeing 737-400 at Sialkot airport, Some tough tiles can be seen resting on Boeing's dented port side horizontal stabilizer.

 

[Windjammer]

These are loose "---crete" tiles, just placed on flattened earth or grass for a creating a quick walkway, these are not meant to be used as parking testing of Boeing 747's. Who allowed that plane to even go there?

Same thing. Why would someone blow the engine full power on paving blocks?

It can cause same effect even on purposely built reinforced tarmac.

A320 elevator severely damaged after an engine run up. The surface of the taxiway was not able to resist the engine blast at take-off thrust. Number of smaller chunks weighing several kilograms each were dislodged and projected at high speed into the horizontal stabilizer, ripping out pieces of composite material that were later found on the over-run area.

 

[Jango]

How the heck was an Apron made of these tiles?

I remember reading some FAA rules that aprons should be made of concrete and there were some other stipulations as well. Don't remember it exactly since it was some time back.