Melbourne airport Incident
 

Two aircraft apparently made 'contact' while taxiing at Melbourne Airport this morning. No injuries reported.
https://twitter.com/alexwhitelive/status/365991947275481088

Ground collision YMML - Virgin/Jetstar
 

Jetstar, Virgin planes in tarmac bingle at Melbourne Airport

Nobody hurt. Not supposed to happen though....!

She'll be right mate. That'll buff right out. :O

The old "holding short of the bay" trick...

Single-man pushback with one of those remote control thingees?

Jetstar load factor http://www.smilies.our-local.co.uk/i...humbsdown3.gif

Virgin Load factor :ok:

:}

Cap'n Bloggs, was actually a tow bar push job

Charter Plane....what Charter plane?

A Jetstar statement said its aircraft was stationary when the collision occurred.


Stationary collision, rather unusual...

Rojer Falcon. :ok:

Not really DD,

I guess it's like backing into a parked car? :(

Technically a collision needs two moving objects

Some more photos of the damage. Including close up of Jetstar APU

https://www.facebook.com/SecondHandPilot

Donk, not quite right, one may be stationary wrt your frame of reference, as the stationary object will still exert an equal and opposite force on the moving object, thus both objects will experience a change in their momentum.

col·li·sion [kuh-lizh-uhn]
noun
1. the act of colliding; a coming violently into contact; crash: the collision of two airplanes.
2. a clash; conflict: a collision of purposes.
3. Physics. the meeting of particles or of bodies in which each exerts a force upon the other, causing the exchange of energy or momentum.

This sort of thing goes on the world over (collision) & where you have humans & machines in the mix it's inevitable. Amazing it's not happening more actually.

Some tea & bickies I'd say:)

As for 'collision'? Well I think we get the gist of things here. ...in a police reportt...........the collision with the tree was of such force that it broke the car in two.

Wmk2

Do groundstaff get tea and bickies or do they just get bread and water?

They get promoted to a position with a clipboard and clicky-pen.

Bbbbzzzzzzzz

Chickens and Roost springs to mind. No doubt a risk assessment was done and 'statistically, It'll never happen'.
I'd laugh but it's just not funny.

Keh? What'll never happen?

No, I tutored English.

Would you like some? (Tutoring) :)

$3m collision between Virgin and Jetstar planes at Melbourne Airport blamed on cost cutting | News.com.au

Okay - talk about a fcuk up but what about the journalism?

A380? Come on :ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh:

Baggage Handler & Push Back Driver
 

Thats what you get when you have somebody throwing bags one minute and then pushing back an $85 Million Dollar aircraft (that he has no respect for) the next...
Bring back Engineer only pushbacks.