Looks like someone'll be down the job centre.....

[ilesmark]

Easyjet flight delayed for three hours after truck gets stuck under plane - AOL Travel UK

[srobarts]

Nice picture here

[DaveReidUK]

The EasyJet plane ... could not depart until the lorry had been prised out from underneath

Good to see that tabloid journalism is alive and well at the Manchester Evening News.

[Lukeafb1]

Dave,

Even the DM printed a quote from somebody at EasyJet saying that a replacement aircraft had to be flown in because the damage was too severe to ignore! No Sh*t, Sherlock!!

[yotty]

Sackable Offence.

Generally it used to be a sackable offence to damage an aircraft. But the powers that be eventually accepted that the culprits would never report it (fearing the sack) leading to a/c departing with potentially serious damage hence the removal of the sanction.

[walterthesofty]

Sensible policy,Being as we are all human we are all liable to fcuk up on occasions for any number of reasons Last thing you want is people being afraid to report damage due to the fear of losing their job.

[Agaricus bisporus]

So what's the insurance Co. going to say if someone with a history of crunching aircraft is retained?

Forget it, negligence like that deserves one chance only. Sack them. If only "pour encourager les autres" - and thats surely good enough reason.

I've no problem with that, it's called self preservation.

And common sense.

[spannersatcx]

you are of course assuming that the driver was at fault and that there was no mechanical fault or failure of the aging truck!

[walterthesofty]

Great policy ,so you sack him and next time someone damages a aircraft they decide to say nothing and you end up with a smoking hole..very enlightened thinking.

[BOAC]

You see, Walter, you secretly LIKE IT here, don't you?

[DaveReidUK]

Out of interest, does anyone know roughly by how much the oleos on an empty A319 compress once loaded with pax and fuel ?

[munster]

The main oleos would only compress an inch or two. The easiest way to remove would be to fully deflate the nose leg and if required, inflate the mains. Looking at the pic. You couldn't do much more damage dragging the truck out!

[spottilludrop]

Might be easier to just deflate the trucks tyres....

[Dan Winterland]

I suspect they jacked the aircraft up . And I hope that easyJet don't have a level of damage they can ignore!

[yotty]

Structural Repair Manual.

Hi Dan, "Easy" don't have a quantifiable level of damage. All the information with regard to allowable damage and repair schemes are laid out in the manufacturer's SRM.

[TURIN]

So what's the insurance Co. going to say if someone with a history of crunching aircraft is retained?

Forget it, negligence like that deserves one chance only. Sack them. If only "pour encourager les autres" - and thats surely good enough reason.

I've no problem with that, it's called self preservation.

And common sense.

Bravo AB. Idiot post of the year award.

[RTN11]

Surely we all learn best from our mistakes, and that is one mistake the driver won't make again, so why would he be sacked.

Pointless creating a situation where people are scared to report anything for fear of losing their job. This is one occasion where health and safety hasn't gone mad.

[spottilludrop]

Quite ,One thing you can depend on is our unwavering ability to foul up on occasions no matter who we are or how clever we think we are.

[99jolegg]

I did some induction training with a ground handler. They have very strict rules on vehicles around aircraft and how / where they're manoeuvred. Those rules are designed to stop this happening. If there werent extenuating circumstances for breaking SOP, they would most probably lose their job.

Same for flight crew...if you deviate from SOP for no good reason and damage an aircraft, will you keep your job?

Aircraft is back in service as of 2 days ago in MXP.