A Delta jet clipped a smaller plane on a taxiway at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Tuesday morning, tearing the tail off the smaller plane, officials said.
Delta Air Lines Flight 295, which was en route to Tokyo, was taxiing for takeoff when its wingtip hit the tail of Endeavor Air Flight 5526, which was headed to Louisiana, knocking the Endeavor plane’s tail off, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and Delta.
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Just wanna drop in to say that the people responsible for keeping the planes the planes from getting romantic on the ground are the same people who chaperone them in the air.
A lot more room to maneuver in the air, though. Like a third dimension and stuff
Yeah but on the ground you can roll slower than 250 kph though.
You probably don’t want to do much rolling in the air
Most airports have separate controllers for taxiway coordination and for runway and air coordination. Many larger airports separate tasks further, like having a separate approach controller. So, usually different people.
Same qualification though. You need to be a qualified ATC to clear a taxi, and air law states that the ground rolling stage as soon as the plane is moving under its own power is part of the flight. It goes as far as this is a flight accident and will be treated accordingly.
Ooof… That looks EXpensive and not just for the CRJ. The larger plane (it looks like an A350, but not sure) is going to need its wing structure and wing box all thoroughly inspected. Outside of the engines, those are the two most expensive structures on an airplane. Not saying that it is going to be a write off for either plane, but it is a possibility. I’m curious if the bending moment of that impact was outside what the larger plane’s wing box was designed for. That force had to be huge, given the length of the wings on the large plane.
I look forward to seeing the analysis from some of the better aviation Youtubers on this one.
I guess they need to increase the delta between the planes…
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Yeah but the orange ones taste the best
I think we have different definitions of “clips”
'Tis but a scratch!
It’s not like the front fell off
I mean, for large enough values of “front,” the front did fall off.
Good thing they got it out of the environment.
Val shipLength = 200ft
Val frontOfShipLength = 200ft
Slap some speed tape on there and you’re good to go.
Was it a Boeing? Just take a bit of tape from the door.
Nope, one was an Embraer and the other looks like an Airbus
Edit: Looks like the smaller one was a Bombardier CRJ900 and the bigger one was an Airbus A350
The larger plane needed to show dominance
I’m never getting on a plane again
Poor lil guy
Wonder if it was the pilot or the ATC.
I’d lean towards ATC.
Two delta planes collided on the tarmac, but they call the smaller plane an endavor plane so they can pay the pilots less.
My plane daddy can beat up your plane daddy.
That’ll buff right out. No need to get insurance involved.
It’s just the small wings they still got the big ones
I’m personally excited to hear about a delta flight that made it out of the gate.
The back fell off
That’s not typical. I’d just like to point that out.
They should just fly it out of the environment.
Some of them are built so that the back doesn’t fall off at all.
'Tis but a scratch
