On Sunday, KLM b747 awaiting it's final retirement at Amsterdam schiphol airport had it's nose dented by an A330 wing. The union says that towing incidents like these are because of too high workload on airport ground staff.
Incident details-
KLM b747s, are officially retired. However, three remains parked at schiphol East, awaiting relocation to their mostly likely final destination. One has been managed to get into a bit of a kerfuffle A330, on Sunday when A330 being towed, it's wing hits the b747 nose causing a dent in the fuselage.
It's nuclear wheather or not there was any damages to the A330 wing.
Excessive workload on ground staff-
The union says that incidents like these are due to the excessive workload on ground staff. According to the NH Nieuws, accidents with aircaft towers are quite common at Amsterdam Schiphol airport, the Dutch trade union confederation ( FNV) says that the workload is too high and their is not enough staff to carry out the work properly, due to the current global pandemic.
Similar accidents-
1.In July this year, how a b787 dreamliner from TUI was damaged as plane pulled out far. The left engine nacelle collided with
aibridge of the gate to which it was being towed. The plane was about to take off on it's first flight to curaco after 4 months of storage instead, it was straight back to the maintenance.
2. In recent last year, two planes full of passengers collides at schiphol while reversing from there departure Gates.
An easy jet A320 heading from London, and a KLM b737-800 inbound for Madrid were being pushed back in the early morning when they basically ran into each other.
Right after collision the Air traffic controller said that they thought that one of the aircraft was parked somewhere else, or they would not have given simultaneous push back clearence.
Another incident-
Alaskan airlines B737 hits the bear on Runway during landing.
An Alaskan airlines b737-200 has been damaged following a collision with a brown bear in yakutat ( Alaska), none of the passengers on board injured but bear was killed due to the impact, Aircraft engines are havealy damaged.
The Incident happened Shortly before 18:30 local time, so the flight crew had limited visibility on dark Runway. A Runway inspection 10 min prior to flight AS66s landing showed no signs of wild life.
However, the two pilots spotted the bear and it's 2 years old cub crossing the Runway
As the plane was slowing down after landing.
" The nose gear missed the bear, but the captain felt an impact on the left side after bear passed under the plane"
Alaskan airlines statement.
The cub was later found uninjured by the airport officials. The left engine cowl was damaged and the airlines has said that the b737 will need to be repaired over the coming days.
Passenger flying out of the yakutat, were flown to the Anchorage on another Alaskan airline flights.
Incident details-
It isn't unusual for wildlife to stay close to airport in rural locations, but airport routinely check and clear the area to avoids incidents like this one. Staff from Alaska department of transport working at yakutat airport checked the runway 10 min before planes arrival and found no signs of wildlife. However, the flight was due to land in the early evening, around 18:30 local time, and so the area was dark, and the bear may not have been spotted.
As per FAA reports-
According to the Federal Aviation administration, wildlife causes the billions of dollars' worth of damage to the USA alone. The most common form understandably comes from bird strikes around 17,228 across the USA in 2019. Around 61% of these take place during landing procedures.
Despite the frequency of wildlife strikes, the FAA only reports 327 injuries to the passengers since 1990. So, although wildlife may be a risk of flying, they aren't enough to cause serious concerns.
Aviation latest update-
1.Cathay Pacific delays the orders of 21 b777x Aircrafts.
To beyond 2025. And also planning to delay the delivereries of 12 A350-1000 for another couple of years. As per chairman of Cathay Pacific.
2. London Heathrow Airport staff to strike for 4 days in December.
Four days of action have been planned they are as follow.
I) Tuesday, December 1st: the first 24 hours of strike.
II). Monday, December 14th: the second 24 hours of strike.
III). Thursday, December 17th to Friday December 18th: A 48 hours of long strike.
With many of these jobs are critical and necessary for airport operations, A strike will effectively close the airport.
The strike is due to the airport is trying to force the workers to accept permeant pay cuts of upto £8,000 per annum, the equivalent of £10,800 ( A quarter of their total pay).
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