Passengers aboard a Southwest Airlines plane were evacuated after it clipped wings with a FedEx cargo plane near the airport loading gate.
Salt Lake City International Airport officials say it appears the Southwest 737 plane was pushing away from the gate Sunday morning when it clipped wings with the cargo plane, shearing off a piece of the Southwest plane’s wing.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
By: HP81 - 5th December 2009 at 22:20
There is another forum running about it : http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread523142/pg1
Sounds like someone took a video of it on their cellphone. Would be interesting to see what part fell off.
It was the blended winglet from the 737, it was taken off from about a quarter of the way up its length. Nothing fell off the DC10 although a slat was badly damaged.
By: Arabella-Cox - 5th December 2009 at 15:31
There is another forum running about it : http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread523142/pg1
Sounds like someone took a video of it on their cellphone. Would be interesting to see what part fell off.
By: Arabella-Cox - 5th December 2009 at 14:15
Sounds like the tug driver’s fault?
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