PPRuNe Forums - QANTAS vs truck at Wellington

from The Dominion Post....

Truck hits QANTAS plane on tarmac at Wellington Airport

By TOM HUNT | 11:00AM - Wednesday, 08 June 2016

http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/o...ps4ta1lmyk.jpg
The QANTAS 737 which was crashed into by a ground truck in Wellington on Tuesday.
— Photograph: Cameron Burnell/Fairfax NZ.

MELBOURNE-bound passengers leaving Wellington had to be put on another QANTAS plane after their one was hit by a truck.

The airline on Wednesday morning confirmed the incident, which happened on the tarmac in Wellington on Tuesday night.

A worker was hospitalised with minor injuries but released shortly afterwards.

The stationary 737 plane was hit by a ground handling truck, the statement said.

The aircraft was due to operate flight QF172 from Wellington to Melbourne with a scheduled departure of 5pm.

http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/o...psiikje41t.jpg
The QANTAS plane remained on the tarmac on Wednesday morning.
— Photograph: Maarten Holl/Fairfax NZ.

A new plane, brought down from Auckland where it was meant to be parked up for the night, left Wellington at 9.50pm.

The damaged plane remained on the tarmac at Wellington on Wednesday morning.

A QANTAS spokeswoman said there was minor damage to the underside of the 737 and engineers were still examining it on Wednesday.

She could not say how long the plane would be grounded but said no more flights would be affected.

A Wellington Airport spokesman said Civil Aviation Authority and WorkSafe had been notified.

http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/o...psb5uglzar.jpg

The vehicle that hit the truck was contracted to QANTAS.

A CAA spokesman said the situation was being dealt with by WorkSafe, where a spokeswoman could not say whether it had been notified.

www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/80835442