Aircraft colliding on the ground at major international airports is not a simple everyday thing as you imply and does require a degree of investigation to try avoid such incidents in the future.
I think you would be surprised, and indeed this was my main point. A low speed impact of the wings of two (or more) aircraft happens all the time, not to mention the thousands of incidents of near misses and collisions between aircraft and other vehicles. Take a look through the AAIB bulletins over the years, and they are littered with small 2 paragraph reports of similar incidents.
Bearing in mind that is just within this country, then you get the idea of the proliferation of such incidents around the world.
An excellent example of another form of incident in a similar vein is that of runway overruns. Again these happen ridiculously frequently around the world (significantly more frequently in the Winter) and can easily be classifed as significant an incident as two wing tips clipping, if not more so. Yet once again, the vast majority of these go unreported in the mainstream media because they are largely un-newsworthy.
My first post was a bit sharp to Newcastle and I certainly don’t blame him for posting something which is obviously relevant to this forum. My rant was squarely aimed at the irrelevance of the article, and the fact that many people get worked up by these incidents when they do hit the press, despite the fact that the vast majority pass without comment.
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