AH! Yes!...qantas...the worlds best and safest airline!...
Now they are the "World's most experienced airline". I believe this was Pan Am's slogan back in 1961. QANTAS can't even come up with their own slogan. How much did they pay for someone to steal that and use it?
Anyway, the incident at AVV today was most unfortunate, but the usual OOH AHH brigade will be out in full force, and out will come the pointing fingers shifting the blame on the guys involved.
Not only will the PIC be held responsible, but all involved on both aircraft will more than likely undergo a drug and alcohol test, not to mention the rabbits that may have witnessed the incident.
Now we'll just have to await the torrent of e-mails and ammended procedures to towing after this incident. These incidents have been around since year dot, and will continue to happen, no matter what procedure is in place, or which idiot manager writes them. It's a thing called "Human Factors". I'm sure all in QF have attended a HF course over recent years. Who knows how much O/T has been worked by the people involved, or the shift they've been on. So long as none were under the influence of alcohol or drugs, it will be, for all intent and purposes, an accident. N one goes ot of their way to intentionally damage an aircraft or their own reputation.
Maybe QF management are the ones who need to be tested.