Two Jets Hit Each Other at New York City’s JFK Airport
- Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:23pm by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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NEW YORK (AP) — The world‘s biggest commercial passenger jet has clipped the tail of another plane while taxiing out to depart New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters says there were no injuries when the super jumbo Air France Airbus A380 touched the other plane Monday night.
Peters says the Paris-bound Air France Flight 7 was taxiing on a runway when its left wingtip struck the tail of Comair Flight 629CRJ7, which had just landed from Boston and was taxiing to its gate.
He says both jets would be towed to a ramp area for inspection. The extent of the damage is unknown.
The double-deck Airbus A380 can carry 525 passengers in a three-class configuration or more than 850 in a single-class configuration. Comair operates regional flights for Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines Inc.
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Comments (44)
welovetheUSA
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:03pmIt was on the ground……..no one was hurt……….tired of the news story all day about nothing.
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:42pmAnd I’m supposed to trust the FAA when I fly. I think I will stay in my car.
Report Post »Desert Dog
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:18amCan I see your license and proof of insurance.
Report Post »flyboy213
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:33amThey have gone over board on the size of these Jey Liners !
Report Post »nilo
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:25amNo thanks, I’ll walk.
Report Post »stephenmarkovich
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 7:45amI was a Comair ramp agent (gaggage guy) employee http://www.RegionalEliteAirlineServices.com and while incidents like these are very rare, the importance of a “Wing Walker” can’t be underestimated.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:35amWhy stop there, why not the perfect 1000.
Report Post »BlowTorchJocky
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:25amOn these big jets, the crew in the cockpit are completely dependent on the ground crews to guide them as they maneuver on the ramp. The Pilot and Co-Pilot can’t even see their own wing tips. We all see it every time an aircraft pulls into a gate or or pushes off…Those folks using hand signals and radio communications to the cockpit. Why? Because they are blind on the ground!
Report Post »HoosierAtHeart
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:05amWonder if it was a language issue?
Report Post »honest.abe
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:05pmThe air traffic controllers let the arrogant French pilot take one for the team. Its tough working that unbearable 35 hour week, he was exhausted. hahahahaha
Report Post »marine249
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:57pmoops
Report Post »AllAmericanG
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:50pmYeah, the photo was over the top.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:42pmHOW do these things happen? someone asleep or texting? unions at thier best
Report Post »geonj
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:40pmfrench pilots probably drinking too much wine. please pass the baguette and the pate. sacre bleu, watch out for that american pig of a plane.
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:37pmWoooops!
Report Post »Physicist_In_Training
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:37pmYeah…the headline and the photo together are very misleading. There should be an automatic-play audio snippet that says “Haha, made you look!” when you click on the article.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:37pmAnybody check the blood alcohol of the pilots???
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:36pm@ jjcon
Who are you direction this comment to…A watch your language.
Report Post »tarbush
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:34pmThe french have attacked us.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:32pmWere they trying to dodge one of 4 horsemen of the apocolyse.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:31pmWas the traffic controller a sleep??
Report Post »Chileno trucho
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:30pmHis parents are going to be soooo mad…
Report Post »My2
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:28pmAnother sleepy air traffic controller?
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:28pmControllers asleep again.
Report Post »afishfarted
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:44pmwell my thought was “It don‘t matter if they’re sleepin’ if they direct two aircraft to occupy the same space at the same time. silly buggers
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:25amNo. French drivers hogging the road !!
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:08pmTo AFishFarted: One of Newton’s Laws, right? Too solid objects can not occupy the same space at the same time.
Report Post »psycodad36
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 7:35pmair traffic controllers are such as the job name describes.when they’re on the ground.then you have to blame the driver education instructor at the public school that they went to
Report Post »kindling
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:27pmI can’t even imagine a plane that can carry 850 people. That is 3 times as many people as live in my town.
Report Post »Cheekymnky2
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:37pmWhat town do you live in and can a family of 4 join it?
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:40pmWho would want to ride on a plane with 849 other people? I like smaller planes buzzing around, rather than packing everyone (both, however, like packing chickens for market)! Long lines at ticket counter, long lines at boarding, long lines at arrival, long lines at customs and immigration, long lines at baggage claim, long lines at ground transportation and parking! We need to stop thinking that bigger is always better and think about the robustness of distributed systems! Can you imagine two A-380′s in an incident with one another? Maybe they need, tandem fire trucks (three trucks welded together), 40 passenger ambulances, or maybe an instant 300-400 person field hospital-maybe it would pop out of the tail cone? How many geese would it take to down one of those suckers? Can you visualize 850 people making it out, lined up on the wings, awaiting water taxi to shore? Too big! Maybe okay for air freight, but too big for passengers-a terrorist’s dream!
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:04pmSALAMANDER….have you ever been on a dual-prop jet on a window-wing seat? Try looking the entire time for a flame out on those antiques.
Then again, I have been afraid of flying ever since being in Iraq on a C-130 coming in for landing at night, having to perform some SERIOUS evasive maneuvers to avoid RPGs….
So yeah, maybe disregard my post, lol.
Semper Fi and Go Greyhound!
Report Post »corbecket
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:12pmSalamander,
I don’t particularly like the larger aircraft either, but the 380 is designed to fill a very narrow niche. There are not that many routes that have the volume to justify such a large aircraft. There are a few of those markets in the world, but because of their rarity there will only be comparatively few 380′s built.
Will enough be built to get to the break even/profitability point on the model? Is Airbus even concerned about profitability on that particular model. The 380 may exist for the same reason that Air Force One is a Boeing, “AF One will be a Boeing, no matter how much it costs Boeing”. The same type of marketing vs. model profitability may go into the decision on making the largest civilian capacity airliner in the world with little hope of ever turning a profit on it due to the small number of units produced.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:15pmleft wing tip struck the tail of Comair Flight 629CRJ7
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So the socialist’s tip rearended an American :D
Who was in that Comair flight ? Baaanee Faank ?
midcoastmainepatriot
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:18pmsomething….somewhere……in this incident HAS to be RACIST….doesn’t it……right…RIGHT !!!!!
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:21pmCheese….I still love you best of all…
Report Post »LMAO what an EPIC post!!!
My Sacred Honor
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:23pmHey cheese…check out my response to
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LIBERALSBEDAMNED
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:34pmno stop light in this whle town here
Report Post »No1YaKnow
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:20amThere is no reason for a jet that size!
Report Post »freeone
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 3:29amSo an Air France A380 hits a Comair-Delta connection jet , and the Blaze uses a picture of a JetBlue EMB190 for the Story?
Report Post »BBomber66
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 3:32amto mysacredhonor:
Are you sure your a marine? You seem veryt squeamish in most of youjr posts why trying to bully everyone. The marines I know don’t bully or bluster: they just do. C-130′s were probably the largest fleet in the world and might still be, having been flown by almost every country’s military. Try flying in a C-7 Caribou that has to fly around a cold mass that will ice its wings or a Sherpa.
Report Post »democratgirl
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:58pmGoogle maps was wrong, I guess.
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