BA 350/EK 777 Collide

[A320LGW]

Any idea of date and circumstances?

[giggitygiggity]

Originally Posted by A320LGW

Any idea of date and circumstances?

Tug's connected so looks like a pushback incident. Looks like the A380 is parked behind its line so assume the A350 was pushed back incorrectly/too far.

[launchpat]

BA and Virgin still flying away!

How come BA are still flying to all these places especially USA? Flight to Lima launched off this morning? Are they just flying freight or are they still rescuing "expats" or confused travelers that are just realizing the magnitude of this virus?

[ACMS]

Originally Posted by giggitygiggity

Tug's connected so looks like a pushback incident. Looks like the A380 is parked behind its line so assume the A350 was pushed back incorrectly/too far.

BA is an A350
EK is a 777....

[atakacs]

Originally Posted by launchpat

How come BA are still flying to all these places especially USA? Flight to Lima launched off this morning? Are they just flying freight or are they still rescuing "expats" or confused travelers that are just realizing the magnitude of this virus?

Yes mostly rapatriation and freight.
​​​There is still some very minimal pax activity but almost nil.

As for the incident reported here where did it happen?!

[krismiler]

With all those EK aircraft lined up it looks like Dubai.

[ivor toolbox]

Pushback crew strike again. Poor lookout on their part.

Ttfn

[Emily Hall]

Originally Posted by atakacs

Yes mostly rapatriation and freight.
​​​There is still some very minimal pax activity but almost nil.

As for the incident reported here where did it happen?!

It was freight only!

Dubai Airport

Last night

[champair79]

Originally Posted by launchpat

So what is going on here? BA295 has just launched off over our houses, a BA 777 going to Chicago O Hare but is shown on BA website as cax or non existent????

it’s a freight-only flight. Most of them are flying with passenger flight numbers rather than adding the customary ‘F’ suffix to the callsign. However in the systems, it’ll be listed as BA295F in your example.

champ

[AtoBsafely]

So, in the composite vs aluminium debate do we declare that a tie? Or do we need to see which flies first?

[VentureGo]

Originally Posted by krismiler

With all those EK aircraft lined up it looks like Dubai.

Article reported in Simple Flying:
https://simpleflying.com/british-air...350-collision/

[cashash]

No great problem for EK - they have plenty of other 777's sitting around doing nowt..

[The AvgasDinosaur]

A touch ironic. With over 80% of the worlds fleet grounded. Two that aren’t manage an unauthorised coming together.
David

[DType]

Friend hoping to be repatriated from Lima tomorrow

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by champair79

it’s a freight-only flight. Most of them are flying with passenger flight numbers rather than adding the customary ‘F’ suffix to the callsign. However in the systems, it’ll be listed as BA295F in your example.

champ

A number of BA's remaining flights are indeed operating with an F suffix (BA027F, BA099F, etc). So far, the BA295 and the corresponding return flight BA294 are operating without that suffix.

[tttoon]

Originally Posted by DaveReidUK

A number of BA's remaining flights are indeed operating with an F suffix (BA027F, BA099F, etc). So far, the BA295 and the corresponding return flight BA294 are operating without that suffix.

In our company at least, an F-suffix indicates a ferry flight, so cargo nor pax on board, which makes a difference in traffic rights etc.

[champair79]

In BA at least, the following apply.

C - Charter
E - Engineering
F - Freighter
P - Positioning (ferry flight)
T - Training

There might be a few I’ve missed out but that covers most of it. Often you won’t see these suffixes in the flight’s callsign though, just in the backend systems.

champ

[champair79]

Originally Posted by DaveReidUK

ASo far, the BA295 and the corresponding return flight BA294 are operating without that suffix.

It’s got an F suffix according to FICO. On FR24 for example, it will show it without the suffix.

[Airbubba]

A common convention with international carriers is that 9000-series flight numbers often mean no pax, i.e. a ferry or cargo flight.

[RexBanner]

Feel for the skipper involved, an absolute top top bloke. Not that it was in any way his fault.