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JFK Fender Bender

This is why we are supposed to keep our seatbelts fastened until the air plane is parked at the gate.

You probably saw this on the evening news, but if not, it's worth watching - the wing of the Air France Airbus almost cleared the tail of the commuter plane, but not quite.



posted on Apr 12, 2011 4:25 PM ()

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I have been too busy to see the news. This is enlightening.
comment by elderjane on Apr 13, 2011 6:53 PM ()
I'm worried about those cracks Southwest found in their 737s. It's a very common airplane, and they are all getting just old enough for long-term problems to start surfacing.
reply by troutbend on Apr 14, 2011 2:34 PM ()
I had heard about this on the news but had not seen the video. That must have been quite a jolt if there were passengers on the commuter jet when it suddenly took a 180 degree turn.
comment by redimpala on Apr 13, 2011 10:07 AM ()
It just slewed around there like a toy, didn't it? I wonder if the cabin crew members were still strapped in.
reply by troutbend on Apr 13, 2011 5:19 PM ()
I wonder if they write tickets to pilots who screw up like that? "Following too close?" "Failure to yield Right of way?" "Texting while taxi-ing?" $125 plus court costs?
comment by jondude on Apr 13, 2011 5:09 AM ()
The airlines recently announced the addition of the ability for pilots to text (or some similar enhanced communication) from the cockpit as an improvement on their ability to navigate, but like that incident where both of them were so busy looking at their work schedules on their laptops they overflew their destination, it's starting to look like distracted driving. There will be an NTSB investigation of this 'near miss' to figure out if it was the fault of the smaller plane for not getting out of the way, or the tower for not directing traffic better, but I'm wondering if the bigger plane's pilot thought his wing was high enough to clear that smaller plane's tail.
reply by troutbend on Apr 13, 2011 5:23 AM ()

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