There's been a bump at Yangon airport

[MonkeyBusiness]

[Simpo Two]

Like a dog having a sniff...

[Campo]

That's their entire fleet - whoops!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Myanmar_Airlin...

[The Nur]

Oh dear, I imagine there is going to be a veritable mountain of paperwork for someone there

[MonkeyBusiness]

Doesn't look too bad from that angle. The other side however -



http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=16...

[annodomini2]

"Get out of my space!"

[Slinky1989]

*BOOP*

[valiant]

Bloody hell, I bet the bloke who did it didn't even bother trying to explain how it happened - he just got his coat and went home certain that there's no job waiting for him tomorrow!

[eccles]

That could potentially be a lot of work if both the pressure bulkheads are damaged!

[CAPP0]

How the merry heck do you taxi a plane that size and fail to notice another just as large! Whether the plane "bumped into" was moving or not! It's not as if the pilot was distracted by a cat running out in front of him!

[V41LEY]

I was there last week !
There is so little activity at Yangon and the apron with a simple line of planes I can't imagine
how this could have happened. It's not like the pilot missed him in 'the blind spot' !
Flew on various ATR's which are pretty scary over the sort of terrain we were landing in.
Thankfully home in one piece.

[mattdaniels]

CAPP0 said:

How the merry heck do you taxi a plane that size and fail to notice another just as large!

The A319 wasn't being taxied it was being pushed by a tug and became disconnected from the tug. The A320 had no chance to get out of the way.

[V41LEY]

mattdaniels said:

The A319 wasn't being taxied it was being pushed by a tug and became disconnected from the tug. The A320 had no chance to get out of the way.

Hopefully, the black boxes have been secured ?
Most of the world's black box searching capability currently elsewhere

[mnkiboy]

mattdaniels said:

CAPP0 said:

How the merry heck do you taxi a plane that size and fail to notice another just as large!

The A319 wasn't being taxied it was being pushed by a tug and became disconnected from the tug. The A320 had no chance to get out of the way.

I thought a pilot had to be at the controls at all times to avoid just this kind of scenario?

[IforB]

God no. We've got better things to do with our time than hang around for when the aircraft is tugged around the airport numerous times a day.

[Campo]

Nope not a pilot, there should be a qualified person up there riding the brakes though when using a towbar and tractor.

My guess is there wasn't or there was and they didn't have any power on so couldn't stop when the bar broke or came detached.

Expensive mistake, looks like they'll both be out of action for quite some time.

[Boatbuoy]

T-cut.