Korean Air plane hits Bangkok Airways plane on take off

[SamuiRes]

A Korean Air Airbus A330, similar to the one involved in the incident, taking off from Vienna On Friday, a Korean Airlines jet collided with another aircraft on the ground at Yangon International Airport.

But instead of stopping to assess the damage, the airliner with 134 passengers and 11 crew onboard continued with its take-off procedure, the AP reported.

The jet, a widebody Airbus A330, clipped the tail of a neighboring Bangkok Airways plane with the tip of its wing.

According to the AP, the pilots of the Korean Airbus didn't notice the collision, and none of the aircraft's collision warnings sounded to alert the crew.

It was, however, reported that ground staff at the airport witnessed the incident and immediately notified the the control tower of the damage.

The jet, Flight 472, returned to the Myanmar capital shortly after taking off for the five hour flight to Seoul, after the officials determined a collision had occurred.

No injuries were reported and the delayed passengers boarded another flight for the South Korean capital later in the day.

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/korean-air-jet-crashed-another-171001807.html

[hanno]

It wasn't exactly a "collision on take off"......

[HeijoshinCool]

A Korean Air Airbus A330, similar to the one involved in the incident, taking off from Vienna On Friday, a Korean Airlines jet collided with another aircraft on the ground at Yangon International Airport.

So a facsimile of a jet taking off in Vienna, collided with an aircraft on the ground in Burma?

Who the he11 writes this stuff? A dyslexic Helen Keller?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

I think the first part re Vienna is a photo caption sentence meant to accompany the file photo that someone had to accompany this article... but I'm not seeing a photo yet in this thread.

Ahh... the photo is in the Yahoo site article that's provided above as the source link.

Edited February 14, 2015 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[ubonjoe]

Wrong forum and not directly Thailand related.

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