BA 350/EK 777 Collide
 

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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.

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?

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

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?!

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

Pushback crew strike again. Poor lookout on their part.

Ttfn

It was freight only!

Dubai Airport

Last night

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

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

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

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

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

Friend hoping to be repatriated from Lima tomorrow

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.

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

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

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

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

Well, it was a ground collision.

You're kidding?! That is so very clearly an Airbus win. Pull forward again, start the donkeys and go.

Gosh, I remember FICO from the 1970s - humungous CRTs with multicoloured keyboards. :O

I wasn't quoting FR24, but HAL's WebTrak system, where up to yesterday the BA295 wasn't shown with an F suffix. But, sure enough, today's is - I stand corrected.

I dont understand this argument - both types have composite Elevators and they are wrecked on both aircraft. :confused:

27 January 1972 FICO (Flight Information and Control of Operations), the real-time computer control of day-to-day flight operations, was launched.

The Air New Zealand repatriation flights to FRA have all been returning with flight numbers in the 6000 range.

What the hell.....with all this talk of Social Distancing, one would have thought that would have been foremost on all their minds!! Assuming it applies to equipment too :)

https://www.aerotime.aero/aerotime.t...ts-in-3-months

Looks like they haven't had much luck with this aircraft...

O gawd you'll mention Tracey next is that still going......

BA also have the suffix D for Delayed. Saw this Feb when we were delayed out of CPT until the following day. The usual rotation used the 042 number and we were 042D.

Qualified pilots are welcomed to make observations about flying the plane, or not, should they deem it to be unairworthy resulting from damage. Qualified maintenance technicians are welcome to make observations about repair methods following damage.

Though nowadays it's more common for a flight delayed from the previous day to be identified with a Y (for yesterday's) suffix. Here's an example, also from February:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8163fc8429.jpg

ATC callsign in this instance was Speedbird 42 Delta. Go figure. :O

except your link is for G-XWBD and the aircraft in this incident was G-XWBA,