Bert Willing wrote:

The Air France Airbus had flown a shortcut into final for Montpellier
because of Mistral and was running VFR. At about 2500m MSL they saw a Grob
Twin and started to roll (don't remember anymore to the right or to the
left) and touched the Grob's elevator with the leading edge of the Airbus
wing, taking off about 1/3 of the elevator.

Both aircrafts landed safely, one flight attendant showed some bruises. The
Grob was actually not infringing any airspace limitations.


May I add that it was a deliberate choice of the crew in the Airbus to
do the descent through uncontrolled airspace where they were informed that
giders were flying. The reaction of the authorities after this midair was
to change this uncontrolled airspace into clasd D airspace.