Korean Air jet crashed into another plane at an airport but took off anyway
 

Korean Air jet crashed into another plane at an airport but took off anyway
 

Fantastic piece of sensationalist reportage there. Moving on...

Collision detectors? That's a company option, then? ;)

Whoww! someone writing articles with real knowledge !
On the other hand they managed to get attention with their sensational headline... Yes , move on ...

Well it cant have been the VP putting the pressure on the crew to get going.

If the report is true, they must have been in one real hurry.

I do admire the adherence to schedule keeping. :}

COLLISION DETECTORS
 

Must be the reversing/ parking camera, just like the one in my wife`s car fitted to stop her bringing home bent supermarket trolleys and complaining that the car was making funny noises , that this cerebral reporter is talking about.

Ignoring the poor reporting, if the control tower got word to the aircraft before takeoff that there might have been damage to the plane that was incurred on the ramp you guys are condoning the Captain continuing the flight?

I can't imagine that ATC advised the crew and they departed regardless, though it is possible. More likely the information took time to trickle through.

Has happened before . . . . . . Accident: Ryanair B738 and American B763 at Barcelona on Apr 14th 2011, both aircraft departed despite ground collision and passenger complaints

The original post implies that it was an air turn-back soon after take-off so evidently there had been no intention to depart with knowledge of a collision.

Is this the one ?

AirLive.net: NEWS A Korean Air Airbus A330 hits an other plane before take off from Yangon

Yup. That is outright scary, bordering on criminal.
Wing tips are quite solid and an airliner will fly just fine with a significantly dented wing tip. Even a 1 or 2 ft missing on the wing tip should be fine to handle with 5 - 10 kts increased speeds on take off and landing.
The tail feathers, however is a whole different story. You get some flutter due to a damaged Elevator and kiss good bye your stabilizer and thereby your (and all the other's) posterior.

According to flight safety, ramp accidents and incidents happen about 27,000 times a year worldwide and these incidents lead to a passenger injury rate of 9 per 1,000 departures. They go on to argue the cost of these and the merits of GAP.


Defining 'accidents', 'incidents', 'passenger injury' and 'departure' would help make these figures less sensationalist and more meaningful.

This has got face saving all over it. Not only for the Capt but KAL as well.

safelife
 

well, if your photo is from the aircraft involved, looks like a Bangkok air ATR72, not good for ATR PR lately....

Hard to see how either the operator or manufacturer is implicated if a passing Airbus takes a chunk out of your rudder ...

A bit of flawed journalism here! Come on guys get your prepositions right. It's really easy.

Is this the most ridiculous comment about ATRs written yet?

DaveReidUK and ZFT
 

Sorry guys , badly phrased, did not meant that ATR as manufacturer had anything to do with that collision, ( the operator we do not know) , what I meant to say was that after a extremely safe decade, their name is now on the news repeatly and this is no good for business..

I will edit my post accordingly.