Ground Vehicle collides with A330 in HK
 

Video and pictures courtesy of Air Disasters Twitter account

https://twitter.com/AirCrashMayday/s...987649/video/1

Edited to add : Cathay Dragon Flight KA691

What on God's green earth was that driver thinking driving in front of a taxiing aircraft?

Just wondered if the driver was incapacitated in some way before the collision ?

Otherwise, difficult if not impossible to second guess what he/she was up to...

I mean, it's not as though it's a Cessna.................

Suicide? It certainly doesn't look like he was trying to get in front of the aircraft, more like aiming for the largest parts of it.

Heart attack? Many possibilities.

already under discussion here

There is of course a more sinister explanation.....

Who could possibly want to drive a vehicle at speed towards the centre fuel tank of a fully fuelled aircraft with passengers on board in the middle of a busy airport?

Now this incident is on social media sites, will the crazies of this world be thinking ''that's an new idea impress our views and ability on the unbelievers!'' A van with explosives in driven into a large passenger aircraft on an international airport. Think about it.

Airport Security now has a new potential threat.

Ok. How do you get a van full of explosives through security? I struggle to get my dinner through.

Apparently the driver had a stroke by the way.

TURIN

Where there's a will there is always a way. Far be it for me to offer the various methods on an open forum. You never know, a Daily M hack may be following this thread!

If you already have a van full of explosives, what extra would you gain from targeting a passenger aircraft on the ground - there would seem to be plenty of other places that you could make your "political statement" much more easily

Here is one explanation.

Driver of van that crashed into Dragonair plane felt unwell before incident, colleagues say

No evidence to back it up but a maintenance guy in HKG told me that there have been previous mental issues.