This video footage taken by a passenger of a South African Airways
Boeing 737-700 shows the aircraft's left wing hitting a stationary utility truck and tipping it over while taxing on the apron shortly after arriving into
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Hi
I watched this clip and wondered if B737-200 can be fitted with winglets.Probably the incident happened on B737-700 or other new generation series that has winglets.
According to the article on livelink.com it is a Boeing 737-700.
Its a 737-800
SAA does not have B737-700 on its fleet, most B737-200s have been phased out some still do Cargo only, then some 300s for Cargo as well, and then 800s for Domestic & Africa Regional flights.
I'm pretty sure that a B737-200 could be retro fitted with winglets, they do it on B727s.
I have been to Lusaka airport and i think the parking bays at the airport are a little messy. There is almost no transistion from the taxi way to the parking bays. I am not suprised this accident happened - probably a wake up call for the Lusaka authorities to be better organsied