Airplane tears off winglet on jet bridge

On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:01:14 +0200 Mxsmanic wrote:

:Original article (in French):

:http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-diver...010-992696.php

:Excerpts (translated):

:Passengers on a flight operated by Turkish low-cost carrier Pegasus were
:unable to take off from Orly Wednesday afternoon. One of the wings of the
:aircraft struck a jet bridge just before its takeoff for Istanbul, grounding
:the aircraft. [...] According to an employe who witnessed the incident, it's
:the fault "either of the pilot, or of the airport personnel, who incorrectly
:positioned the jet bridge." However, according to Aéroports de Paris,
:"responsibility has not yet been determined, but it's clear that it wasn't the
:jet bridge that was out of place."

:Since this is a Turkish airline, I think we can safely assume that the pilots
:messed up. Indeed, if the jet bridge was not incorrectly positioned, there
:aren't too many other possibilities.

:I'm surprised that passengers were willing to wait for a later flight on the
:same carrier, instead of simply switching airlines.

Turkish PM Erdogan and the UN have already blamed Israeli sabotage.

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