Originally Posted by
Pinkman
"The aircraft moved slightly after parking". Nice try. The pictures suggest otherwise: that it hit the airbridge before it stopped.
It's perfectly possible that the aircraft stopped in the correct position and subsequently moved forward again causing it to strike the airbridge, which would make the Finnair statement correct.
The twitter picture (arguably) suggests that there were two impacts: the first in a conventional impact with the girder of the airbridge which damaged the inlet cowl, and the second from above which damaged the top of the fan cowl. The pattern of cracking of the fan cowl does not suggest a lateral impact.
So the mechanism would be that the aircraft was moving, hit the airbridge, braking was applied, the nose dipped as PFP suggests, then rose back up for a second impact.
I don't get that from the Twitter photo, in fact I'm not sure what distinction you are making between the "inlet cowl" and "fan cowl". The damage shown could well have resulted from a single impact (Occam).