Saudi B777 got accident with Push back truck at JED

[AbdulAziz]

Saudi B777 got accident with Push back truck at JED during push back process at Jeddah airport

From Arab News:
Riyadh-bound jet in minor accident at Jeddah airport

All passengers on SV1036 flight are safe.


JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID
Monday 29 April 2013
Last Update 29 April 2013 5:18 am
A Riyadh-bound Saudi Arabian Airlines flight had a minor collision with a tow-truck at the King Abdul Aziz International Airport yesterday.
The Boeing 777 aircraft, with passengers on board, was about to take off when it collided with a maintenance vehicle.
Khaled Al-Khaibari, a spokesman for the General Authority of Civil Aviation, confirmed the accident, but described it as minor. “All passengers on SV1036 flight are safe,” he said.
Al-Khaibari said all passengers were deplaned and were put on a different aircraft. “All of them reached their destination safely,” he said.

For pictures of this accident:-
http://burnews.com/news-action-show-id-51689.htm

http://www.twasul.info/index.php/local/ ... X9yoKJTCkc

A.Aziz

[Vaqar Khan]

Looking at the photographs, especially of the nose wheel of the aircraft at 90 degrees and the damage to the aircraft tow tractor, seems like it was supposed to be a maneuver turning the aircraft whilst pushing back which went wrong. Wonder if the damaged engine had started at that point.

[haroon_ek]

Looking at the rest of the intake blades, it seems the engine wasn't started and if I am not wrong, if this incident happened just at the early stages of push-back then definitely the engine wasn't given the startup.

[AbdulAziz]

yes as u can c the position of AC relatively to other AC yes it was just started push back from parking position.

A.Aziz

[AbdulAziz]

Aircraft was HZ-AK16 delivered to SV on 8th DEC 2012.







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A.Aziz