CRJs play bumper cars in Baton Rouge

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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Delta CRJ catches fire on taxiway

The flight crew and passengers of Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight 4320 had quite a bit of excitement yesterday when their CRJ-200 caught on fire while taxiing out to the runway for departure at the Baton Rouge Airport. The flight, operating for Delta, had to be evacuated on the taxiway when it was apparent after a loud pop, that the right engine was on fire. No one was injured in the incident and the airport fire crew was on scene within 90 seconds to start fighting the fire as seen in the picture above with the ARFF truck shooting some Purple K dry chem on the right engine.

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