A mate of mine works for Jetstar, said the baggage handler ran into the side and "crimpled" (his words) the fuselage. Aparently some serious damage, and the aircraft is only 2 weeks old!
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In the good old Two Airline days the baggage snatcher would've immediately "gone sick" and caught a cab home, at company expense, to hide.
The union would've called a stop-work meeting to forestall any wise ideas the company might've had about sacking the moron who drove straight into the side of a big white airplane (Presuming that's how it happened for the sake of indulging my cynicism).
The baggy would've come back to work after a week or so of "stress leave" and been placed on "light duties".
Bit of a spate of these lately- heard that a Skippy A330 had a bingle with a ground service vehicle on Saturday morning in Brisbane. Back in the air that afternoon though. Maybe the same driver....
The Aircraft concerned was parked outside hangar 4 at Avalon whilst repairs were made (by forstaff sheeties, no Jetstar/ impulse engineers on the scene until depature time) until departure/ferry flight to Sydney at around 5pm yesterday (Tues).
Good thing that this incident didn't occur at a port with a little less maintenance facilities nearby i.e. Hamilton Island or Tassie!
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