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Old 18th Apr 2010, 13:01
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Heathrow Harry
 
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Abrasion Damage

When the BA plane was in Jakarta it was joined a few days later by an SIA Airbus that flew into the same cloud (obviously hadn't read the papers)

Both were parked at Jakarta Halim for a while and had obvious and severe abrasion damage to nose, windows, leading edges etc
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