Planes clip wings at KDCA

[Sandhawk]

Looks like a USAirways B737 & A319

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Planes-Clip-Wings-at-Reagan-National-85682092.html

Planes Clip Wings at Reagan National

No injuries reported

By JIM IOVINO

Updated 7:48 PM EST, Sat, Feb 27, 2010

Two planes clipped wings Saturday morning while on the ground at Reagan National Airport.

Officials said the planes clipped wings on a taxiway at about 9 a.m. after one of the planes, US Airways Flight 2169, arrived from LaGuardia.

No injuries were reported, but there was enough damage to cancel US Airways Flight 1703 that was to leave for Fort Lauderdale.

Passengers headed to Fort Lauderdale were taken off their plane and were trying to rebook other flights to their destinations.

There were 91 passengers and four crew members on board Flight 2169.

There were 143 passengers and five crew members on Flight 1703. A US Airways representative said all passengers have been rebooked, some of them via Charlotte. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

 

[FLYLOW22]

There was an accident in the parking lot at DCA too. Apparently, a Buick Le Sabre backed into a Chevy Suburban.

The door on the Chevy was dented.

That is all.

 

[Scope out RJ's]

There was an accident in the parking lot at DCA too. Apparently, a Buick Le Sabre backed into a Chevy Suburban.

The door on the Chevy was dented.

That is all.

:laugh::laugh:

Ever notice that everyone driving a Buick Le Sabre is about 80 years old?

 

[Sandhawk]

There was an accident in the parking lot at DCA too. Apparently, a Buick Le Sabre backed into a Chevy Suburban.

The door on the Chevy was dented.

That is all.

Maybe it was the same over-60 East FO driving the LeSabre that was on the "Clipper ship" that day..........


:laugh:

 

[becket]

More examples from the "highly experienced" easties.

 

[Captainzero1]

If you are on the centerline and you ding someone that is your get out of jail free card. My former flight instructor always told me that, is it true?

 

[Whataburger]

They're always taxiing around like a bunch of cowboys!!!

 

[Sandhawk]

They're always taxiing around like a bunch of cowboys!!!

:laugh:

 

[Turtle21]

If you are on the centerline and you ding someone that is your get out of jail free card. My former flight instructor always told me that, is it true?

Huh? I thought the negotiated payrate on the 190 did not include taxi duties?

 

[wmuflyguy]

If you are on the centerline and you ding someone that is your get out of jail free card. My former flight instructor always told me that, is it true?

Depends, but I would say no. You are still responsible for see and avoid.

Say you see a large plane on a parallel taxi way, and you taxi your large plane down the parallel taxiway and clip wings. The feds are going to ask you "why the hell did you do that, if you saw him?" or you for some reason use a taxiway that is too small for the plan you are operating and clip something.

Even if you are on the centerline they could still get you.

 

[crj567]

:laugh::laugh:

Ever notice that everyone driving a Buick Le Sabre is about 80 years old?

Hey-

Don't knock Ned's ride... At least he is nice enough to pick you up weelky over in LBB in his sweet Le Sabre...

-The way Ned figures it, giving you a ride is a small price for such an incredible hummer!

 

[MK82Man]

4 of our Finest East Coast Aviators run 'em together on a taxiway. Yeah those highly experienced Easties ... and 250 passengers bite the bullet. Wonder how those FLL PAX felt? Really what a bunch of knuckleheads. I'm guessing it is probably one or more of those 900 East Coast FOs junior to me in the 737 and the Airbus that were able to trade paint with each other -- maybe they should try furlough and I'd keep those Captains from hitting each other. Geeez. The East is a joke and is dragging the whole Airline under. "Close it up" is the best idea around and then let the East complain how unfair it was the Airline folded when they were the Majority.

 

[FR8mastr]

edit pending confirmation

 

[Minimaniac]

It looks like you west guys will have to find someone else to bash for a day or two. It was NOT the fault of an East crew. However, I would be willing to make a bet that your integrity filled selves already knew that.

Courtney Prebich, a MWAA spokeswoman, said that the two planes -- a U.S. Airways
Airbus A319 headed to LaGuardia Airport and a smaller U.S. Airways Express
regional jet on the way to Rochester, N.Y. -- were in an area at the north side
of the airport waiting for their turn at the runway when the collision occurred.

The smaller jet -- operated by regional carrier Republic Airways -- was carrying
21 passengers in taxi mode toward the runway when it clipped the wing of the
larger aircraft and became lodged there, according to Andrea Rader, a
spokeswoman for U.S. Airways.

I think the incident you mention occurred last year.

 

[flybywire]

4 of our Finest East Coast Aviators run 'em together on a taxiway. Yeah those highly experienced Easties ... and 250 passengers bite the bullet. Wonder how those FLL PAX felt? Really what a bunch of knuckleheads. I'm guessing it is probably one or more of those 900 East Coast FOs junior to me in the 737 and the Airbus that were able to trade paint with each other -- maybe they should try furlough and I'd keep those Captains from hitting each other. Geeez. The East is a joke and is dragging the whole Airline under. "Close it up" is the best idea around and then let the East complain how unfair it was the Airline folded when they were the Majority.

The 300 was being pushed at the time how exactly is it their fault? Can the west guys actually see whats going on behind their plane??? Just another thing for you to complain about. Keep wishing it goes under and guess what your job and all you friends on the west if you have any are out of jobs too.

 

[Scope out RJ's]

Hey-

Don't knock Ned's ride... At least he is nice enough to pick you up weelky over in LBB in his sweet Le Sabre...

-The way Ned figures it, giving you a ride is a small price for such an incredible hummer!

Huh?

Nevertheless, at least with your mom she doesn't own a car....She just goes trailer to trailer to offer her services!:laugh:

 

[EWR_FO]

If you are on the centerline and you ding someone that is your get out of jail free card. My former flight instructor always told me that, is it true?

That was the excuse the idiot at Continental used after he hit not one, not two, but three rj tails while taxiing. It didn't work too well for him, although the FO telling him to stop while the CA ignored him didn't help. Idiot.

 

[Minimaniac]

DCA is a tight little airport. Just in the pat few years we have this incident, the one another poster mentioned where two planes clipped in the blocks of 19, and another incident where one aircraft was pushed back into another parked aircraft.

I am not making excuses, I am just pointing out a trend. Often at least one crew familiar with DCA is involved. This airport seems to snag multiple aircraft each year. Use some extra caution, taxi a little slower, and do your best to monitor your push crew's progress.

 

[eaglesview]

They're always taxiing around like a bunch of cowboys!!!

You work for a great company with a fairly secure future. Congrats on that. However a WN guy saying anyone else taxi's like a cowboy is flat out funny.

 

[Guppiedriver]

You work for a great company with a fairly secure future. Congrats on that. However a WN guy saying anyone else taxi's like a cowboy is flat out funny.

Yep, just as he intended.