Retro Roo damaged on the Tarmac at PER

[Blackadder]

Seems like a luggage loader and Retro Roo have had a coming together at PER yesterday
Retro Roo coming off second best, with damage to the fuselage.

 

[Kendall Roy]

Swissport rookies?

 

[TheInsider]

Menzies Aviation can be blamed for this in PER.
Lowest bidder etc etc.

 

[jakeseven7]

Wow the baggage handler was trapped under the aircraft, sounds really serious. Hope the worker is ok.

Lovely to see the unions cashing in already

 

[oz_mark]

Strange that they reported this as happening yesterday. I saw these pictures circulating last weekend.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Strange that they reported this as happening yesterday. I saw these pictures circulating last weekend.

Probably "damage control"...
So, who will the outsourced employee claim compo from, employer, or QF.

 

[RichardMEL]

Irony of your use of the phrase "Damage Control"? or pun intended?

 

[odysseus]

Do they need to put one of those "Clearance - 1m" signs on the sides of aircraft now?

 

[mannej]

Do they need to put one of those "Clearance - 1m" signs on the sides of aircraft now?

They seem to act in the opposite manner as to how they were intended - How Many Days Since The Bayswater Bridge Has Been Hit?

 

[RichardMEL]

They seem to act in the opposite manner as to how they were intended - How Many Days Since The Bayswater Bridge Has Been Hit?

heh. you stole my thunder a bit. I was going to make a quip regarding the Montague Street Bridge in Melbourne. Despite all efforts to stop issues it still hapens on a regular basis - almost to the level of farce.

 

[oz_mark]

They seem to act in the opposite manner as to how they were intended - How Many Days Since The Bayswater Bridge Has Been Hit?

Good thing that bridge is being rebuilt, as part of the developments for the airport line (and Ellenbrook line)

 

[AIRwin]

Special de-livery...

 

[jb747]

Aircraft seem to have major stealth abilities when on the ground, as people run into them as if they are invisible. A bus drove in front of my moving 380 in LA…guess he thought I was a stationary building.

As for baggage loaders…you’d be hard pressed to find an aircraft more than one day old that they haven’t managed to run into. But it isn’t just them. There was a driver in Sydney who had worked out that he could drive his little tug under the engines of one of the aircraft, and he did so with increasing speed. It worked until he came across a brand new aircraft (of the same type) that had a different brand of engine, and a bigger cowl. At this point it ended much less well. I’ve heard of others who were used to driving under unfuelled aircraft, who suddenly found a way of working out when they were fully fuelled.

Stupidity isn’t a limited resource.

 

[docjames]

Interesting in one of the articles QF is quoted as outsourced ground ops having about half the rate of aircraft damage as company operated.......

 

[flydoc]

And now local media reporting a flight ex-DRW has been cancelled today after a collision between a baggage loader and the aircraft. Article paywalled but screenshot attached

 

[jb747]

I think there's an appropriate Carly Simon song.... "It happens every day".

"Anticipation" also comes to mind.

 

[Alyopsis]

The damaged plane in Darwin today was QF851 to Perth. Flight was cancelled

 

[ChrisGibbs]

Heard today the damaged 737 flew at 9,000ft (non pressurised) arriving back in Sydney 6+hrs later. Not quite as costly as the Emirates A340 that had a tail strike departing Melbourne back in March 2009. Ended up having to be ferried from Melbourne to Airbus in Toulouse via Perth, Singapore, Dubai and Cairo flying non pressurised below 12,000ft.

 

[Chicken]

Serious question: So what actually happens when some idiot drives into a plane? Does Qantas call Suncorp to pay for smash repair?

 

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Not sure if this was the incident reported 3ish weeks ago or a new one. I take it that this was a separate incident as QF851 was reported and that is a DRW-PER flight.