Air bridge collides with A320 of Spanair

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Air bridge collides with A320 of Spanair

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Spanair's A320 (EC-IOH) has been damaged at its front door when the air bridge collided with the plane. The accident happened at Arlanda Airport.

Here are 2 pictures that clearly show how the door has been displaced from its usual position: 8O


http://www.airliners.net/open.file/558387/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/558386/M/

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Post by AN124 »

Whoops that's some serious damage for this plane.

I'm only wondering how this could have happened. In my opinion this can only happen when the door is open and the air bridge start to move or am I wrong??

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Post by Andries »

Ouch, that's gonna be an expensive repair ...
Hope the bridge-operator was insured ...

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Post by luchtzak »

Looks like the bridge went up and took the door with his trip ;-)

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Post by Captain »

Stupid accident!

I've noticed that the controls at the air bridge/jetway allows you to choose or warns you about different heights for different planes.

Either the guy chose wrong height for that type of plane, or when door was being opened, he accidentally pushed one of the controls!

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Post by Vonsmalhausen »

somebody is gonna have a bad half-houre in the big chief's office :roll: :oops: :?

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Post by 744rules »

Normally, you have 3 modes on an airbridge : Off, Manual, Automatic.

off : speaks for itself (bridge is not working and in parking position)

manual : allows the operator to position the bridge. Procedures are normally that the bridge-operator gives the thumbs-up only when the bridge is correctly positioned. At that stage the cabin crew can open the door.

automatic : this means the bridge is docked to an aircraft and that it will follow the up/down movements of the a/c (de-boarding/boarding, offloading/loading, fueling). The ramp people will offload from the rear first because pax get out thru the front (tipping !!).

Some a/c are more sensible than others. TU134 and TU154 are amongst the more "dangerous" ones.

A few years ago, we had an iccident with an Air Alfa A300. During boarding, the bridge did not follow the a/c and was "hanging" on the fwd pax door. The a/c was grounded a few weeks to allow the airbus people to check if the structure was damaged or not. If so, it was a write-off

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Post by Avro »

Thanks for this very nice explanation B744rules.

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