Ground towing collision at Avalon

[Philip Argy]

Originally Posted by Marty H

From looking at the images on the news, looks as though its damage to the randome on one, and damage to the left leading edge slats near the winglet on the other.

I saw the same news images. How the ?!*?! can you tow a 747 head on into another aircraft, or tow another aircraft so that its wing whacks another aircraft head on the nose?

It has to be rotten luck for Qantas on any objective view - they can't take a trick lately and have muted a lot of the marketing momentum that they could otherwise have expected from the A380 inaugural services.

No doubt Lindsay Fox will be hearing some choice language from Alan Joyce ...

[Marty H]

Originally Posted by Philip Argy

I saw the same news images. How the ?!*?! can you tow a 747 head on into another aircraft, or tow another aircraft so that its wing whacks another aircraft head on the nose?

It has to be rotten luck for Qantas on any objective view - they can't take a trick lately and have muted a lot of the marketing momentum that they could otherwise have expected from the A380 inaugural services.

No doubt Lindsay Fox will be hearing some choice language from Alan Joyce ...

Obviously a misjudgment by the tug driver on how close the wing was, would have thought though there may have been someone 'marshalling' when towing in such close proximty to another aircraft.

Would have a ground engineer been plugged in possibly???

I dont think Joyce can say much to Fox unless Fox was driving the tug.

[Graham B]

How will the journo's get the "passengers feared for their lives" line into into this story?

[Mike W]

Originally Posted by Rhys Xanthis

Umm...qf might just want to look at selling OJK.

i swear it's cursed!

I'd be selling OJH before OJK (Bangkok incident)

[Mike Scott]

I guess QF must have outsourced the tug driving contract.

MS

[Nigel C]

Last week or this week Mike?

[Trevor Sinclair]

Yeh, can't win a trick in 2008! Imagine the paperwork that has to follow an incident like this, here are some stills...

[Jamie D]

appears from the photos that the other aircraft involved was vh-ojm

[Raymond Rowe]

A real nice insurance claim there and looks close enough for a boeing crash crew call out. Looks to be a fair amount of damage to VH-OJM wing.

[Marty H]

Looks like OJK was the 'innocent' one this time around. As I said in a previous post, surprised they didnt have a marshaller or ground engineer keeping an eye on the tow when they knew it was within close proximity to another aircraft.