Yesterday night a British Airways Airbus A350 collided with an Emirates Boeing 777 in Dubai, UAE.
This incident was first reported by @Airline_Kitty and its possible to see that the 13-year-old Boeing 777-3000ER was parked on the Tarmac at the moment of the incident.
The Emirates Boeing 777-300ER, with registration A6-EBR, arrived yesterday at Dubai from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
On the other side, the British Airways A350, with registration G-XWBA, was performing a pushback to leave Dubai to London Heathrow; the BA A350 was performing flight BAW106 when the incident occurred. The aircraft was due to depart from Dubai at 01:30 and arrive in London at 06:15.
In the next tweet, it is possible to see the damage caused on the Airbus A350s left horizontal stabiliser.
More photos on the next tweet:
Feature Image courtesy of Airline Kitty by various source
Craig,
I agree with what you said – NO EXCUSE – with one comment: Due to all the groundings, the tarmac is probably exactly the opposite of what you said. It is probably now FULL of airframes !!!
Sam! You made it to the big time!
This is simply inexcusable…what with the severe curtailing of the volume of flights due to the Covid-19 virus, the tarmacs should be as vacant as a country/rural road. What in the world is wrong with the ground crew… Are they visually impaired? or just plain ignorant.
Ouch ! That’s an incident report for sure. Wonder if the BA was being marshaled out ?