B787 towing incident at Jo'burg.
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Substantial damage to the 787 starboard wing, a team from Boeing have gone out to assess it. I believe a third aircraft may then have been hit by the 340. Quite special really.
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Appears a Virgin B787 as it was being pushed back on departure, the RH wingtip area took out the APU doors of an A340 which itself was spun round and hit a B737. Sounds a bit expensive.
Ironically, the THY A343 had positioned from IST earlier in the day on what was probably going to be its last flight anyway, joining two others already in storage at JNB awaiting the axe.
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Yeah, no. The 787 was being towed over from the other side in preparation for the late departure that night. And although people keep saying wing-tip (perhaps that sounds less significant and inexplicable), it was the wing. Maybe the 340 won't make it on to the bill. One can hope.
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ive found SA, SAA and J’burg airport to be sort of a bastion of professionalism in an undeveloped continent. I have seen a decline, and so did our company, with an increase of black empowerment hiring. We used SAA technical for our mx for years. SAA started sending us people with zero experience for OJT. Every time one of these trainees would F up, they’d use a race card. They even tried the race card when being arrested by a black cop in black Afrika.
