Thai / Air France incident 15 July
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Hello everyone,
I was first told about this incident becasue it may have had something to do with lack of English language proficiency. Can anyone confirm this?
Also, not that it matters, but mansaloco, if it had been a A380 wouldn't the wing have cleared the other, considerably, smaller aircraft? Perhaps I didn't understand the comment.
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PE
Something in French here...
I was first told about this incident becasue it may have had something to do with lack of English language proficiency. Can anyone confirm this?
Also, not that it matters, but mansaloco, if it had been a A380 wouldn't the wing have cleared the other, considerably, smaller aircraft? Perhaps I didn't understand the comment.
Thank you,
PE
Something in French here...
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Originally Posted by mansaloco
Boeing or aint going, "Built tough"
Had this been a 380 we would be looking at a wing on the ground
Had this been a 380 we would be looking at a wing on the ground
Oh common now!! I have flown in both types and Airbus as far ahead as the technology is, they are made out of paper. A passenger can't hold a drink on the tray without wearing during light to meduim chop!!!
You know it's true
You guy's are too much...this is funny!!! Please continue
I'm enjoying this. 
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Response to last picture in Birddogs photos
I can just imagine Maxwell Smart saying "Just didn't....miss by this much"....while handing his hands about two feet apart. Funny how there is a 1 km run before a 2 foot mishap. Poor bloke.
How can Thai Corporate Communications say in their 'clarification' of the incident, that their 747 collided with the wing of a Fokker, when in fact it took the tail off an Embraer?
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As a 145 pilot, I'm just a wee bit worried that the tail snapped off rather than simply causing the Barbie to swing 'round.
Guess it must be true what they say about rudder reversal!
Guess it must be true what they say about rudder reversal!
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If you lurk carefully at the pictures, Hastings, you will perceive ne cest pas that there are some - how do you say - work in progress barriers to ze gauche of the Thai Djuumbo.
Could it be, mon ami, that there was a restriction temporaire of the width of the taxiway a ce moment which caused the leviathan to strike the aeroplane of Air France a mighty blow?
No doubt BEA will reveal all at the end of the Act quattre.
Sir George Cayley
Could it be, mon ami, that there was a restriction temporaire of the width of the taxiway a ce moment which caused the leviathan to strike the aeroplane of Air France a mighty blow?
No doubt BEA will reveal all at the end of the Act quattre.
Sir George Cayley
Originally Posted by Dan Air 87
Its easily done though.
Just how easy is it to swipe the tail off another aircraft in broad daylight?
I know it was quite a small one, but are eye tests a thing of the past?
