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| | Ground Jet Blast Hazard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The fact that few serious jet blast incidents and accidents occur during millions of ground operations annually is a tribute to the training and professionalism of air carrier flight and ground crews, and to the continual care they exercise in ground operations. |
 | | Incidents of jet blast damage that occurred on ramps were invariably associated with sharp turns of the aircraft during an engines-on pushback, powerback, taxi-out, or taxi into a gate. |
 | | Large (LGT) aircraft weighing between 150,001-300,000 pounds, such as the B-727, B-757, and A320, were the most frequent source of jet blast damage by nearly a two-to-one margin, accounting for 45 percent of the damage incidents reported to ASRS. |
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