Ground towing collision at Avalon

[Philip Argy]

Originally Posted by Marty H

From looking at the images on the news, looks as though its damage to the randome on one, and damage to the left leading edge slats near the winglet on the other.

I saw the same news images. How the ?!*?! can you tow a 747 head on into another aircraft, or tow another aircraft so that its wing whacks another aircraft head on the nose?

It has to be rotten luck for Qantas on any objective view - they can't take a trick lately and have muted a lot of the marketing momentum that they could otherwise have expected from the A380 inaugural services.

No doubt Lindsay Fox will be hearing some choice language from Alan Joyce ...