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Old 18th Oct 2016, 13:50
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Originally Posted by millionaire
Fact : The aircraft was hit by the water servicing truck. Now you only need to figure out why and how the truck driver did it .
The truck reversed under the static aircraft.

(I deduced that when I first saw the photograph.)

I confess that my primary occupation involved investigating 'incidents' with (prototype) commercial vehicles (trucks).
As they were 'prototypes' there was no historical evidence, therefore I had to accumulate as much information as possible.
Not all incidents were collisions (in fact very few were) but it was important to register whatever surrounding circumstances might have influenced the incident.
In this case I deduced that the truck had struck the access panel protuberance from the front of the aircraft rather than a simple vertical crush.
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