Lion Air 737 Clips Airfast Indonesia MD-82 on Tarmac at Jakarta [PHOTO]
A Lion Air 737 and an Airfast Indonesia MD-82 come together (Photo: Rudy Setyopurnomo)
A Lion Air Boeing 737 clipped an Airfast Indonesia MD-82 jet at the Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta International Airport early Friday morning.
“The incident took place at 3:35 a.m. between a Lion Air Boeing 737-900 with the code PKL-FL, and an Airfast Indonesia MD 82 with the code PKO-CU,” Angkasa Pura II’s corporate secretary, Trisno Heryadi, told The Jakarta Post Digital on Friday.
‘…the Lion Air plane, which was due to take off for Palembang in South Sumatra at 5:20 a.m, was towed from R 37 to B 33 at the Night Stop Apron (NSA) in Terminal 1 C when its right wing grazed the tail of the Airfast plane parked in R 37.’
The damage to both planes has been reported as substantial.
The Airfast Indonesia plane may not have been parked properly and is being investigated.
Category: Airnation
Uh, oh better call Maaco!
The wingspan of the 737NG is extraordinarily long- quite honestly TOO long!
Regardless of the 737′s wingspan, the moving aircraft and it’s tractor tug operator have the obligation to inure that they are not going to cause an accident. This is the most basic understanding of aircraf movement.
For the record, I spent nearly nine years doing movement and non-movement area tug operations before I went to management. Never in that time have I had a single accident.