Thai / Air France incident 15 July
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Thai / Air France incident 15 July
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Looks like a little Fokker to me instead of a EMB.
Just one question though , The wingtip of a B747 would pass over the wingtip of a Fokker very easily so I would suggest that the wingtip of the B747 hit the Tail of the French aircraft. The picture also suggests this with the air france colour scheme in the picture which one would suggest comes from the tail.
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Just one question though , The wingtip of a B747 would pass over the wingtip of a Fokker very easily so I would suggest that the wingtip of the B747 hit the Tail of the French aircraft. The picture also suggests this with the air france colour scheme in the picture which one would suggest comes from the tail.
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Thai & Air France 'clipper'..any further info? (Pictures)
Does anyone have any information on when, why and how and who was at fault for this little taxiing incedent?
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Think the answer to that is pretty obvious. If anything was taxiing in this incident, it must have been the 747 judging by the damage to it. Unless the smaller bird was pushed back into it...but you mentioned the word "taxi"..
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It happened on the 15th of July. The 747 had left its parking at Terminal 1 and was taxiing towards the runway on the wrong taxi way. Pilots' mistake it seems, but then they taxied almost a Km without anyone noticing.
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I'd love to read the accident report. I hope there were a few witnesses to prove that it was nothing to do with the way that the French jet was parked. Will the Thai pilot lose his no claims bonus?
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If they taxied almost a kilometer before anyone noticed how come the Thai aircraft is pictured above about 10 feet away? Did they come back to exchange insurance details??
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Originally Posted by Onions
If they taxied almost a kilometer before anyone noticed how come the Thai aircraft is pictured above about 10 feet away? Did they come back to exchange insurance details??
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Sorry Onions, on re reading my post I realized it was (unintentionally) misleading. Indeed the 747 taxiied without anyone noticing he was on the wrong taxiway for almost a Km before hitting the ERJ.
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I wonder what the Control Tower said to the Thai pilot. Its easily done though. Sometimes the biggest danger to aircraft is not when they are flying-its when they are on the ground! If the bloody catering truck doesn't slam into the fuselage then something like this happens!
While being a "stick in the mud" - come on easily done? As a pax all we ask for is the competent people "up front" to take us safely from A to B - and I suppose tecnology and computerisation does so much of that these days in respect of the art of actually flying the aircraft its a bit of a bad show when they cant even taxi the darn things without hitting one another - or maybe I am just having an off day - I know accidents can happen etc etc.....
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The Thai guy gets bonus points. Managed to take the other aircraft's tail clean off, without sustaining other damage to his own a/c 
. Unlike this relative amateur: http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/as...nc/photo.shtml 
A written description of that fun & games: http://www.aviationpics.de/ramp/alaska/altext.htm
. Unlike this relative amateur: http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/as...nc/photo.shtml A written description of that fun & games: http://www.aviationpics.de/ramp/alaska/altext.htm