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Old 16th Oct 2007, 08:33
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slip and turn
 
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To those that have chosen to play down the seriousness of this, I would counsel that a really nice bloke I was proud to know was killed by a wingtip at a large European airport. He was strapped in his seat at the time, sadly just a bit closer to the point of initial contact than the lucky hundreds involved in this one.

PS Neither do I think there's much value in splitting hairs in these incidents between what's active runway and what is taxiway/apron at busy airports. The fact is that when the doors are closed and we're manoeuvring under our own steam we are talking about exactitudes of flight ops safety not the quick and dirtiness of ground ops.
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