Dublin: 2 x RYR in contact during taxi. Both damaged.
 

@EmzCarr: Stuck on a @Ryanair plane @DublinAirport clashed with another plane en route to runway lost top of our wing! http://t.co/uxVlTG84cX

Image at link above shows the damage. Delays reported.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/1007/650...ublin-airport/

Well a first time for everything I suppose

I like the quote from the Ryanair statement:

So presumably both flights arrived at their destinations on time then!:}

Well, that's different:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/...age001_png.jpg

(via Daily Mail)

If I try to visualise the amount of force it took to shear the wingtip off like that, along with what I've experienced re Ryanair taxiing at DUB, then I agree with the eyewitness account that one plane was not going "slowly". :hmm:

60 ton aeroplane, plastic winglet. You could do that at 1 kt. That damage is not evidence of speed.

Was it "foggy" in DUB this am ?

Reason for delay on RYR interweb page..... "Change Of Aircraft".

What to do with this throw away culture, I do not know.

Rings a few bells....

http://www.avherald.com/h?article=45363621&opt=0

They will never learn while they maintain the expectation to rush when on the ground in order to achieve OTP.

RYR press release : and trying, at least for the mind of the uninformed, to divert the blame to ATC!

If I was working in Dublin ground, from now I know what I would do :E

For ATC playback see EIDW3-Oct-07-2014-0530Z.mp3 at 14 min

When was 30kts slow??

For some non-hysteria laden reportage along with some helpful photos ...

Investigation at Dublin Airport after two planes clip each other near the runway

Maximum speed on the apron is 15 kts, where did you get the 30 kts from?

From the Beeb: Obviously it was no big deal if DUB ARFF couldn't be bothered... :rolleyes:

I guess they shouldnt have held short so short.....

this image clears it up..

http://c2.thejournal.ie/media/2014/1...-2-630x472.jpg

In the UK certain categories of emergency response always require an outside presence as well as the resident force.


Whether this fell within one of those I wouldn't know.

Well, with one of the largest fleets in Europe and a vast amount of sectors flown every day as an airline then statistically this 'outfit' will have a larger amount of mishaps. Per sectors flown I do not have any concerns about FR's number of mishaps.

Ryanair is an incredibly safe/unsafe airline. I love/hate them. Their pilots are wonderful/awful.
End of thread.

Ryanair jet has top of wing ripped off after planes collide at Dublin Airport | Daily Mail Online

or alternatively from the print version the headline re the event " Passengers in runway terror"

But I do like the cartoon.

Looks like one of them was trying to make a slot.