[HN Gopher] Heathrow Airport: Two planes in minor collision
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Heathrow Airport: Two planes in minor collision
Author : shifty1
Score : 38 points
Date : 2022-09-28 20:49 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.bbc.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
| vardump wrote:
| https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/heathrow-cra...
|
| "Two airplanes have hit into each other on the runway at Heathrow
| Airport this evening (Wednesday, September 28). The nature of the
| incident was not clear at first, but witnesses report that the
| wings of two planes hit into each other. _It is not believed to
| be a serious incident._ "
| paulgb wrote:
| Maybe @dang could replace the link with that one, the linked
| one doesn't seem to be handling the load well.
| agsnu wrote:
| oopsy daisy
| rwmj wrote:
| BBC News has a better article:
|
| https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63069004
| dang wrote:
| Ok, we'll change to that from https://www.airlive.net/breaking-
| two-planes-collided-on-grou.... Thanks!
| paxys wrote:
| Probably not serious enough to discuss. Planes clip random things
| - and each other - while taxiing at airports all the time.
| nawgz wrote:
| That's just blatantly false. Every time a plane takes damage
| they have to do a full analysis of similar damage and
| flightworthiness. The people on call to do this aren't cheap
| and great caution is taken in the procedures of moving planes
| to avoid damage of all natures.
| epolanski wrote:
| It is actually far from being that common.
| bdamm wrote:
| No, it's quite common. Planes collide on the ground all the
| time, at airports all over the world. Normally minor "oops"
| in ground handling, by the pilots but also can be pushers and
| such who are ferrying around airplanes. Runway entrance and
| exits are particularly hazardous and are marked that way.
| epolanski wrote:
| You need to provide data behind this claim.
|
| Not only you need major mistakes by multiple people and
| systems for two planes to touch while taxing, but two
| planes colliding even in an apparently minor way is enough
| to ground the planes for controls.
| [deleted]
| TillE wrote:
| > Normally minor "oops" in ground handling
|
| There is absolutely nothing minor or common about a
| collision of airliners _on a runway_ at a major airport.
|
| Similar mistakes have resulted in serious incidents. There
| will be a full investigation of this.
| fshbbdssbbgdd wrote:
| What happens after, does the plane still fly? Are planes
| engineered to withstand this?
| pb7 wrote:
| There is zero chance they're flying immediately after
| this.
| nicoburns wrote:
| I imagine there's a good chance that the plane _could_
| fly after this, but aviation is (rightfully) risk averse
| and expect it 'll have a pass a full inspection before
| being cleared for flight again.
| spiderice wrote:
| But.. uncommon enough that people should care about it world
| wide each time it happens? If this happened at my nearest
| airport, I would expect to see it in the local paper. I
| definitely wouldn't expect people more than a couple hundred
| miles away from me to hear about it.
| antihero wrote:
| Really? That's absolute madness. Any more info?
| bolasanibk wrote:
| FAA search page for incidents:
| https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:12:::NO:::
|
| List of incidents in the past 10 days:
| https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:93:::NO:::
| jpollock wrote:
| There haven't been many recently.
|
| Airbus/Boeing accidents while taxing:
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| https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:11:::NO:::
|
| 2021: 1
|
| 20210220001669I - ON TAXI OUT FROM THE DE-ICE PAD THE RIGHT
| WING STRUCK AN IMPROPERLY PLACED DE-ICE TRUCK
|
| 2020: 1
|
| 20201220018589I - SUSTAINED RIGHT WINGTIP DAMAGE FROM
| STRIKING A LIGHT POLE
|
| 2019 - 4 ...
|
| 20190729005662I - G-CKWE STRUCK N819AN?S RIGHT WINGTIP WITH
| THEIR RIGHT WINGTIP
|
| 20190610006432I - ASAA STRUCK THE RIGHT HORIZONTAL
| STABILIZER OF THE PARKED EMBRAER 175 WITH THEIR LEFT
| WINGLET
|
| 20190418002979I - THE AIRCRAFT STRUCK A RUNWAY EDGE LIGHT
|
| They can get pretty funny. The first one I clicked into was
| "ingested snowbank and a light"
| pistachiopro wrote:
| Thanks for the link.
|
| By my reading, of the 8 incidents reported in the last 10
| days for Airbus and Boeing aircraft, 7 were collisions with
| birds and one was:
|
| > AIRCRAFT LANDED AND POST FLIGHT INSPECTION REVEALED
| DAMAGE TO RIGHT LANDING GEAR AND FLAPS, HOUSTON, TX.
|
| Nothing about two planes colliding on a runway.
| qw3rty01 wrote:
| almost all of these are non-commercial; all but 1 of the
| commercial incidents from the past 10 days are due to
| striking birds in flight, and nothing with airport taxiing
| runarberg wrote:
| Also in the Icelandic state news:
| https://www.ruv.is/frett/2022/09/28/vel-icelandair-lenti-i-a...
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