HKIA Gate 69 airbridge collapse.
 

Hope all are well.
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/8...3fe3ed33f2.jpg

Holy sh**

I stand under those bridges at times, not anymore....:eek:

its actually bay 71... and it ripped the L1 door off...

Ok, but what the hell happened to cause both bridges to fall over like that?
Something run into them?

Was the a/c in the picture a 777 or Bus?

Was during passenger boarding for CX532, A330. Just a few missing passengers so they closed L2 door first. As the bridge was moving away, it collapsed and knocked over the other airbridge, ripping off the L1 door in the process.

The AA have advised airlines to use single airbridge for the time being. Not entirely sure what that achieves!

believe its a bus

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/uf/1216...phpOKo4WP.jpeg

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/uf/1223...phpypCGdJ.jpeg

Wow, poor old HLF, better give it to KA now. :ok:

Would be nice to get some news from our company if anyone got hurt or even died...

Now I know why I didn't get gate W69 on arrival today.

And here's me thinking they were just changing things up a little.

What a f&@k up!!

Well, one department at CX has found out how far you can cut costs before it has adverse consequences.

Holy Sh*tsnacks..

It's not enough no ground power exists at most, or that the amount of refuse on the apron is enough to cause personal injury doing a walk around, but falling gates? Whose incharge of hkia? Or wait...:ugh:

I presume no one was killed?

Has this ever happened before at any airport ? Unheard of.....

SCMP reports that HKIA spokesman said the bridge was faulty.

Faulty? Really !!

Understatement of the year.....:D

Heard the only person in either bridge was 1 bridge operator who was taken to hosiptal. Not sure of his condition.

Has it happened at other airports
 

Sure has,

Has happened a few times at SYD including with SIA 744 - see here All About Safety

as well as KLIA and a few others..

Happened at KLIA MTB a few year back

W71 "faulty" Operator stable
 

I overheard one of the girls in McDonalds saying that the operator was conscious after being rescued and was admitted in stable condition. She also said that the Airport Atrocity had said that the "Faulty" aerobridge had recently been fitted with the new, super-powerful air-conditioning packs (underneath). They were now worried that the added weight "may" be a factor, possibly in the design/balance of Aerobridge. At one stage last night, the cleaners were saying that they were going to suspend the use of all jet bridges and use air-stairs instead, only that they didn't have enough to service the flights :ugh:. They decided to go with only the inner bridges incase... hoping that if they collapsed, it wouldn't take out the 2nd bridge. Plenty of head-scratching on how to deal with the A380 top-deck bridges... To the crews using the engineer stairs to embark... no rocking please!:rolleyes:

The same girl in McD's also heard that the gate staff were herding the last 8 late runners through the main Gate entrance and down towards the ramp when the bridges toppled.... had they been 10 seconds quicker, they would have all been on it when she went.... :eek: