EZY incident at Inverness

[Stockpicker]

Mr S just back from weekend hillwalking having dropped a friend at Inverness in time for the Luton flight c.1700, only to receive a call an hour later to say they're stuck on the tarmac thanks to a service vehicle bumping into the plane! We've looked on websites etc to find out if/when they eventually got airborne, but can find no sign of the flight details, so am assuming it was minor and they got away OK - can anyone confirm or give more info?

[Oshkosh George]

From a contact at Inverness,the damage limited to paint scratches and the aircraft immediately cleared for flight by the engineer.

Probably just small delay summoning engineer.

[Oshkosh George]

A bit reluctant to ask further of my contact,he wasn't that keen to talk as he works for easy!

Would they not use a local non-easy guy?

[jettesen]

we have used the services of BA engineers up there.

[Stockpicker]

Thanks for the responses anyway, chaps - the friend on the plane is flying out to the US tomorrow, would hate to think of him starting the trip from Inverness after an unexpected overnighter!

[In trim]

Scratch close to one of the doors from service equipment. Engineer arrived and aircraft was within limits to operate....effectively scratch to paint only.

[FlapsOne]

Last time I needed an engineer up there (lightning strike) it took about 15 mins.

Maybe I was lucky, but I was certainly impressed.