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Old 8th Sep 2016, 15:12
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Ground Vehicle collides with A330 in HK

Video and pictures courtesy of Air Disasters Twitter account

https://twitter.com/AirCrashMayday/s...987649/video/1

Edited to add : Cathay Dragon Flight KA691
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What on God's green earth was that driver thinking driving in front of a taxiing aircraft?
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Just wondered if the driver was incapacitated in some way before the collision ?

Otherwise, difficult if not impossible to second guess what he/she was up to...

I mean, it's not as though it's a Cessna.................
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What... was that driver thinking driving in front of a taxiing aircraft?
Suicide? It certainly doesn't look like he was trying to get in front of the aircraft, more like aiming for the largest parts of it.
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What on God's green earth was that driver thinking driving in front of a taxiing aircraft?
Heart attack? Many possibilities.
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already under discussion here
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There is of course a more sinister explanation.....
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Who could possibly want to drive a vehicle at speed towards the centre fuel tank of a fully fuelled aircraft with passengers on board in the middle of a busy airport?
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Now this incident is on social media sites, will the crazies of this world be thinking ''that's an new idea impress our views and ability on the unbelievers!'' A van with explosives in driven into a large passenger aircraft on an international airport. Think about it.

Airport Security now has a new potential threat.
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Ok. How do you get a van full of explosives through security? I struggle to get my dinner through.

Apparently the driver had a stroke by the way.
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Where there's a will there is always a way. Far be it for me to offer the various methods on an open forum. You never know, a Daily M hack may be following this thread!
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If you already have a van full of explosives, what extra would you gain from targeting a passenger aircraft on the ground - there would seem to be plenty of other places that you could make your "political statement" much more easily
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Here is one explanation.

Driver of van that crashed into Dragonair plane felt unwell before incident, colleagues say
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No evidence to back it up but a maintenance guy in HKG told me that there have been previous mental issues.
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