{"id":414491,"date":"2026-04-26T23:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/costly-mistake-ripping-off-aircraft-door\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T23:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:01:17","slug":"over-800000-the-costly-mistake-of-ripping-off-an-aircrafts-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=414491","title":{"rendered":"Over $800,000? The Costly Mistake Of Ripping Off An Aircraft&#8217;s Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In commercial aviation, some of the most expensive incidents do not happen at cruising altitude but are a result of ground damage, often in plain sight of passengers and airport personnel. Aircraft parked at the gate are surrounded by a carefully choreographed environment of jetbridges, service vehicles, baggage equipment, and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"265494\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ground-crew\/\"  >ground crew<\/a><\/span>, all working within tight schedules that leave little room for error. While these operations are routine, they are also inherently complex, and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-airlines-dread-ground-damage-incidents\/\" >even a minor lapse in coordination can trigger consequences that far exceed initial expectations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when an aircraft is damaged on the ground?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,5574,636,1601,771,513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-damage","category-american-airlines","category-china-airlines","category-dublin-airport","category-melbourne-airport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414492,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414491\/revisions\/414492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}