Another tail clip, 737 against 737

[Nightrider]

At Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Delta 552 (Boeing 737) ariving from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with 50 passengers and 5 crew members taxiing to its gate when its wing clipped the tail of Delta 566, also a Boeing 737, which had just arrived from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic waiting on the taxiway waiting to enter its gate. Luckily no one hurt....

[scanhorse]

ATLANTA -- A Delta Air Lines Boeing 737 clipped the tail of another Delta 737 Thursday evening on the runway at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, WXIA-TV reported.
Delta flight 552 was taxiing to a gate after arriving from Tegucigalpa, Honduras when its wing clipped the tail of Delta flight 566, which had just arrived from Dominican Republic and was sitting in the taxiway waiting to pull into a gate.


Read more: Two Delta planes clip each other on runway in Atlanta - NYPOST.com (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/two_delta_planes_clip_each_other_4qbe4P6PfzhDZo2cVIEpUM#ixzz 1MDsz9ZNU)

Best Regards

[HeadingSouth]

'tis gonna be interesting who's being the target for the blame this time. No french involved cette fois...
In addition I'm expecting many comments to surface about Delta's safety culture...

[Agaricus bisporus]

Luckily no one hurt....

I'm stretching my imagination to think how anyone could possibly be hurt by the aviation equivalent of a car-park bumper-scrape...

Big deal!

[Checkboard]

Don't stretch your imagination, Agaricus - watch the youtube video of the A380 incident, and see how violently an aircraft can move in a "tail scrape" :rolleyes:

... or are you one of the passengers who undoes their seat belt and stands up for their luggage as the aircraft taxies off the runway? :cool:

[Reinhardt]

Now I'm expecting the same ant-Delta and anti-american comments as the anti-Air france and anti-french ones I read on this forum after the JFK incident.....

[Smoketrails]

@ Checkboard,

Anything will look violent at 2x the speed!

[Checkboard]

Indeed the security vid was sped up - but that plane moved a loooong way.

[smith]

Now I'm expecting the same ant-Delta and anti-american comments as the anti-Air france and anti-french ones I read on this forum after the JFK incident.....

It's ok Delta are part of the Air France group now anyway so we can still bash the French :eek:

[oceancrosser]

Maybe the "offending" 737 capt is from Louisiana, that would make French bashing pretty valid...