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Probably not serious enough to discuss. Planes clip random things – and each other – while taxiing at airports all the time.
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It is actually far from being that common.
No, it’s quite common. Planes collide on the ground all the time, at airports all over the world. Normally minor “oops” in ground handling, by the pilots but also can be pushers and such who are ferrying around airplanes. Runway entrance and exits are particularly hazardous and are marked that way.
There is absolutely nothing minor or common about a collision of airliners on a runway at a major airport.
Similar mistakes have resulted in serious incidents. There will be a full investigation of this.
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Really? That's absolute madness. Any more info?
FAA search page for incidents: https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:12:::NO ::: List of incidents in the past 10 days: https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:93:::NO :::
Airbus/Boeing accidents while taxing:
https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:11:::NO:::
2021: 1
20210220001669I - ON TAXI OUT FROM THE DE-ICE PAD THE RIGHT WING STRUCK AN IMPROPERLY PLACED DE-ICE TRUCK
2020: 1
20201220018589I - SUSTAINED RIGHT WINGTIP DAMAGE FROM STRIKING A LIGHT POLE
2019 - 4 ...
20190729005662I - G-CKWE STRUCK N819AN?S RIGHT WINGTIP WITH THEIR RIGHT WINGTIP
20190610006432I - ASAA STRUCK THE RIGHT HORIZONTAL STABILIZER OF THE PARKED EMBRAER 175 WITH THEIR LEFT WINGLET
20190418002979I - THE AIRCRAFT STRUCK A RUNWAY EDGE LIGHT
They can get pretty funny. The first one I clicked into was "ingested snowbank and a light"
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No, it’s quite common. Planes collide on the ground all the time, at airports all over the world. Normally minor “oops” in ground handling, by the pilots but also can be pushers and such who are ferrying around airplanes. Runway entrance and exits are particularly hazardous and are marked that way.
> Normally minor “oops” in ground handling There is absolutely nothing minor or common about a collision of airliners on a runway at a major airport. Similar mistakes have resulted in serious incidents. There will be a full investigation of this.
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No, it’s quite common. Planes collide on the ground all the time, at airports all over the world. Normally minor “oops” in ground handling, by the pilots but also can be pushers and such who are ferrying around airplanes. Runway entrance and exits are particularly hazardous and are marked that way.
What happens after, does the plane still fly? Are planes engineered to withstand this?
If it's just a wingtip Boeing sends a AOG (Airplane On Ground) team to repair it onsite. They remove the wing skin replace any ribs, spars, wiring, lighting, etc, that are damaged, before riveting a new skin over it.