French airport food truck delivers hole in THAI fuselage

[lee b]

ohh thats gunna cost some money !! Would not like to be one of the guys involved !

[Ricardo]

Did the truck-driver 'do a runner' ?

[rubl]

Fuselage??? more like Starboard wing...

To some of us that would be the right wing as in 'looking forward in the direction the plane would be normally going it's on the right side)

[Commander Tamson]

Bad Press???? If anything it's Good Press for Thai Airways - the fact they sent a replacement plane out rather than a sticky plaster from the plane's medical kit. The only bad press, if any, was Coconut's dig about the pineapples - quite clever I thought

[Basil B]

Fuselage??? more like Starboard wing...

To some of us that would be the right wing as in 'looking forward in the direction the plane would be normally going it's on the right side)

True if you were sitting in the pilots seat, but if you were a ground marshaller (guy with table tennis bat in each hand) standing in front facing it, it would be the left wing...

Edited April 3, 2015 by Basil B

[Sealbash]

Yes, it's almost unbelievable. If Somchai had crashed the truck this would be a 100 page thread already.

Thai bashers.

We do not have the full story yet. Maybe the Thai pilots backed the plane into the food truck.

[HooHaa]

Oh my god, if this had happened at Suvurnabhumi to an Air France plane, the forum server would have crashed by now already.

indeed

[jayceebee]

A few strips of "Black Nasty" will soon sort that, then get it back home for a proper repair

[Ricardo]

Perhaps better to fix the dent in France, since that's where Airbus actually assemble A380s, and also they're not currently under-warning from the ICAO ?

[PeCeDe]

The French drive on the wrong side of the road anyway, not surprising really.

[Sealbash]

The French drive on the wrong side of the road anyway, not surprising really.

I thought they drove on the right side?

[PeCeDe]

The French drive on the wrong side of the road anyway, not surprising really.

I thought they drove on the right side?

Well that's the confusion right there! when people who drive around a left sided plane, but are used to driving around right sided planes, there's gonna be an accident ain't there?

[h90]

these careless French....the skilled Thai labor would never do such a mistake. Anyway some tape and paint can fix it easily outside.

Inside just let the stewardess stay in front of it so no one can see it.

[geriatrickid]

After photos of the damaged plane appeared online, Thai Airways president Charamporn Jotikasthira confirmed the incident

So very Thai, only after being caught with their pants down, they confirm..................

What did you expect him to do, send a news alert that an incompetent french contractor collided with a stationary plane?

Be fair.

TG did what any other airline would do, and that is to respond to a "non-event". Unfortunately, these collisions occur at all major airports. Have you ever seen who and what works at some airports?

[geriatrickid]

The French drive on the wrong side of the road anyway, not surprising really.

HuH? It was a tarmac, not a road. There are just designated transit zones, no lanes per se on a tarmac.

[geriatrickid]

A few strips of "Black Nasty" will soon sort that, then get it back home for a proper repair

The aircraft will be out of commission for a few days if not a week and it will be repaired at the AB contractor on site at the aerodrome.

[PeCeDe]

The French drive on the wrong side of the road anyway, not surprising really.

HuH? It was a tarmac, not a road. There are just designated transit zones, no lanes per se on a tarmac.

After flying millions of miles myself, did you really believe I was being serious, or are you just not seeing the funny side of things today.

[poweratradio]

"An empty Airbus plane was dispatched to Paris to replace the damaged plane.

Transport Minister Prajin Juntong blamed the incident on the airport contractor responsible for the truck."

That's going to cost somebody.

Why send an empty plane. ??? Doesn't anyone go to France anymore????

[Mcffee]

[Basil B]

A few strips of "Black Nasty" will soon sort that, then get it back home for a proper repair

The aircraft will be out of commission for a few days if not a week and it will be repaired at the AB contractor on site at the aerodrome.

Spitfire used to fly with holes in there wings every time they fired their guns, all they did was patch them up with some fabric and dope.

Anyway that's one Frenchman who will no be stressed out by having to work 35 hours a week again.

[Tokay]

Wonder how much it is going to cost France to replace the entire plane.

[gk10002000]

Fly below 10,000 feet. Won't have any pressurization issues.

[Farma]

Fly below 10,000 feet. Won't have any pressurization issues.

I don't think that would work in this case as the hole appears to be on a leading edge and not a pressurization problem. I've used duct tape successfully on supersonic jets in areas protected by the boundary layer in the past.

I remember being told many years ago of a newly delivered Ansett Airlines Airbus being punctured in the fuselage by a bagage handler. That jet was flown low level from Oz back to France for repairs.

[Banzai99]

There is no way white people would do anything wrong, anything that went wrong would have been a Thai persons fault.

[swampdonkey]

There is no way white people would do anything wrong, anything that went wrong would have been a Thai persons fault.

How do you know the truck driver was white person ?

[MaxYakov]

As a matter of interest, how does a hole like that in an aircraft get repaired?

Performed by humans, possibly using THIS PROCEDURE (wikihow).

[maidee]

quickly, paint over the logo of the plane

[Commander Tamson]

There is no way white people would do anything wrong, anything that went wrong would have been a Thai persons fault.

Are Thais the world's only non-white race? Bloomin heck! There's one hell of a lot Thais living outside of Thailand then.