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Dragon Lady Posted: Tue, Oct 16 2007 8:40 AM

British Airways 747 and SriLankan Airlines A340 incident last night. Link courtesy of BBC:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7046224.stm

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Chipmunker replied on Tue, Oct 16 2007 12:31 PM

More here:

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/10/16/218588/ba-and-sri-lankan-aircraft-strike-wingtips-at-heathrow.html 

Sounds like Sri Lanka's fault

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Chipmunker replied on Tue, Oct 16 2007 12:34 PM

And a snap courtesy of a BBC punter:

Looks like a new winglet for the 747 ...

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Beaver replied on Tue, Oct 16 2007 1:47 PM
 

I am not dismissing a safety related incident, but I can’t believe it is making so much news.  Although they shouldn’t, these mishaps happen frequently at airports around the world. We don’t here about them unless an eager journalist from one of the national news agencies latches on because it is simply not news.  Anybody from the aviation community will know just how common incidents at airports are. 

 

Having said all of this, it should be investigated and safety management systems and SOPs should be revised as a result.  Anybody that is deemed to have done wrong should be retrained to help prevent further incidents.  You will never entirely stop human error, but you can reduce the risk.

 

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Orville replied on Tue, Oct 16 2007 2:43 PM

LHR has come under criticism lots lately and this certainly can't help matters.

wingtip collisions unfortunately are frequent occurences because the area is congested and poorly designed. With a bit of luck things will improve when T5 is up and running. Until then, more care and attention is needed.

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Goose replied on Tue, Oct 16 2007 3:59 PM
Blown all out of proportion by the news media….when I first heard of this my mind was cast back to the incident in Tenerife news stories all over the world were reporting a collision by two aircraft at Heathrow Airport, it turned out to be nothing but a wingtip collision between British Airways 747-400 G-BNLL bound for Singapore and a Sri Lankan A340-311 4R-ADC, both wingtips were damaged in the incident nothing more no injuries to passengers. Reports claiming a wing or and engine had fallen off were all false. there would have been fuel everywhere…hopefully these news media people will have egg on their faces over this one…just puzzles me if we can find out the facts why can’t the media without broadcasting inaccurate information.I must stress though this kind of thing is becoming more common at congested airports only a couple of months back there was a similar thing with two BA aircraft, Terminal 4 handles most of the BA 747 fleet and space must be very tight.

 

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Chipmunker replied on Tue, Oct 16 2007 4:28 PM

agree - this is no Ariana:

however, presumably someone's at fault. my guess is that someone tried to squeeze a plane through and smaller-than-plane-sized hole.

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Goose replied on Tue, Oct 16 2007 7:47 PM
Exactly....but who's to blame well for starters Ground Control...trying to squeeze these aircraft through an info structure that is basically way to old...these taxiways have never been widened and more wide body aircraft are using Heathrow than ever before...now they bring in the A380...I say build a bigger better London Airport scarp Heathrow and Gatwick...then these incidents wont happen....one day it might be a lot worse than a wing tip....but please media get your stories right in the meantime
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Maverick replied on Thu, Nov 1 2007 3:34 PM

 Hey i have heard a rumour that the BA 747 that hit the Sri Lankan A340 had only one winglet. Very interesting news...


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Titch replied on Fri, Nov 2 2007 8:44 AM

Maverick:
Hey i have heard a rumour that the BA 747 that hit the Sri Lankan A340 had only one winglet. Very interesting news...

Interesting, how?  Careful there, Mav.  You're starting to sound like a conspiracy theorist....

An aircraft flying with only one winglet is a more common occurrence than you might think.  It's completely safe and well within the scope of any given airline's standard operating procedures.  It just adds a little more drag to one wing.

Anyway, G-BNLL has only been flying with one winglet since the accident happened.  The missing winglet wasn't missing when the incident occurred.

 

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Maverick replied on Fri, Nov 2 2007 9:24 AM

Titch:
Interesting, how?  Careful there, Mav.  You're starting to sound like a conspiracy theorist....
 

 I was just trying to spice things up a little, make it a bit like the X files Wink
 

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Titch replied on Fri, Nov 2 2007 9:28 AM

The truth is out there (but you won't hear it from BA).....   Ha ha.

 

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