Careful, the air disaster link is full of pop ups.:*

Boeing or aint going, "Built tough"

Had this been a 380 we would be looking at a wing on the ground

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.
Thank you,
PE

Something in French here...

Wing on the Ground?
 

mansaloco: How can you support such a crazy statement?

:)

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 :D I'm enjoying this. :ok:

It sure gives a new meaning to 'tail strike'!! :D

Where, and when, did this happen?

B A Lert,

Here's one story. Then, here's what Thai says officially.

Best,
PE

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.:bored:

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?

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!:eek:

Ah, but you you should have seen the 27 other fokkers he taxied past before he hit this one.


Someone had to say it.....

Adopts Hercule Poirot voice for this piece
 

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

Run that past me again, please?

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?