KLM 332 hits EK's 345 (A6-ERE) tail in Khartoum
 

From today's Khaleej Times

DUBAI — An Emirates flight parked at Khartoum International Airport in Sudan was hit by a passing aircraft on Friday.
The Emirates aircraft suffered minor damage but all passengers on board are safe, an airline spokesperson confirmed.

The incident took place early in the morning when EK743, an airbus A340-500, was getting ready to take off for Dubai. A wing of the passing aircraft, a KLM Airbus A330-200, hit the tail of the Emirates flight and damaged it.

The Emirates spokesperson told Khaleej Times that the incident led to the cancellation of the flight and all passengers and crew were disembarked without any injuries. “Our aircraft was hit by a passing KLM aircraft. But all the passengers and crew are safe, who were accommodated at a hotel in Khartoum overnight and would be flown to Dubai by a replacement plane today.”

The spokesperson said that the company’s technical team is assessing the damage to the aircraft, which looks slight as per the preliminary evidence.

He also apologised to the passengers and their relatives for the inconvenience caused by the incident.

No spokesperson for KLM was available for comments.

Khartoum is Khartoum. If you stick on the yellow line, you will hit the other aircraft in their parking bay and if you taxi off the yellow line, you will have a main gear in the mud. It's a no win situation. That's the beginning of the story, and then to get start and taxi to backtrack and line up, well, you gonna be there all night from experience with the A332.

Khartoum should be an A320 only, 1 flight per month on a sunny day airport!

This just had to happen once, no?

Thanks god my wingspan in there is well below the limits!

Pussy:E:E:E:E

I find KTM to be an easy day's flying... If you accept the TIA mantra you'll have no problems there:ok:

I think jetjock330 is a bit simple:hmm::hmm:

Eklawyer.
thanks for making my day.
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ek lawyer ... you didn't .. just cut the cr:mad:p please..

It was a great evening in the Brauhaus with some of your A380 crew before getting to the the keyboard!;)

Very salient points.

Such incidents at patently high risk locations show that the standard of flight operations risk assessment and audit is frighteningly low. If an oil company was planning to charter aircraft to operate to those locations a far more rgorous hazard analysis would be done as part of their aviation SMS.

Thank you...That was what I was trying to say.