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
South African Airways 737 wing tips truck over
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on January 2, 2008 2:40 PM | Reply
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.
on January 2, 2008 3:20 PM | Reply
According to the article on livelink.com it is a Boeing 737-700.
on January 2, 2008 10:27 PM | Reply
Its a 737-800
on January 3, 2008 11:04 AM | Reply
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.
on January 4, 2008 12:48 PM | Reply
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
on July 4, 2009 6:10 PM | Reply
The plane was probably retrofitted with winglets. This sight has lots of info and links on the subject.
http://www.b737.org.uk/winglets.htm
on October 15, 2009 8:57 AM | Reply
for me I think the taxyway at the airport is to small or not organise. Because when taxying on the yellow line everything from the plane are secure. And if you nicely watch the video you can see the truck was out of the line. So is normal for me that the wing hits the truck.