Planes collide on tarmac at Melbourne Airport

[Ikara]

Just received a phone call from my daughter who has a friend on a Virgin flight to Qld. Apparently two virgin aircraft have collided on the tarmac at Adelaide with significant damage. No injuries as far as I know. I'm unable to find anything on main stream media.

JB

 

[pauly7]

No way..... Really?

Virgin are trained and specialized at hitting buildings, not other aircraft

 

[JessicaTam]

Hopefully it was a slow speed collision. What maintenance facilities do VA have in ADL to effect repairs?

Edit: just did a Google search and this thread is the only hit (no pun intended)

 

[Ikara]

Update. The incident was at Tullamarine and it was Virgin Vs Jetstar. My daughters friend was a bit upset when she rang my daughter.

Apologies for wrong information initially.

JB

 

[DGW]

Found a pic on FB: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152440478481494&l=c8cb8ae9e5

A better shot from Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexwhitelive/status/365991947275481088/photo/1

Tweet from Melbourne Airport: https://twitter.com/Melair/status/365995564350976001

No injuries reported.

 

[eastwest101]

Lots of construction and congestion of taxiways at MEL when I was there last week. Pretty difficult to see what (if anything) has collided with what. Is that an A320 tail cone that I see on the ground or a B737 tail cone?

Mods may want to change thread title to "Collision on tarmac at MEL" until the situation is more clear.

 

[bass_ke]

Oh dear! Flying VA out of MEL tomorrow as well!

 

[JessicaTam]

Oh dear! Flying VA out of MEL tomorrow as well!

Not to mention those going to the VA AGM in BNE today.

 

[bass_ke]

Not to mention those going to the VA AGM in BNE today.

True! I hope everyone makes it out on time!

 

[pauly7]

Hopefully when a mod wakes up they can change the title to Melbourne

 

[RooFlyer]

At 10:50 MEL airport site shows a VA flight to Maroochydore at 9:35 and a JQ flight to Hobart 9:40am both cancelled.

 

[Ikara]

Apologies again for the title, but initial communications between my daughter and her friend were at best garbled.

JB

 

[eastwest101]

At 10:50 MEL airport site shows a VA flight to Maroochydore at 9:35 and a JQ flight to Hobart 9:40am both cancelled.

VA1507 delayed and JQ705 cancelled.

 

[pauly7]

ABC news now reporting a Virgin aircraft has hit a Jetstar plane

 

[gwilli1]

Not to mention those going to the VA AGM in BNE today.

Everyone has arrived at the VA AGM in Brisvegas ok

 

[straitman]

Hopefully when a mod wakes up they can change the title to Melbourne

Some of us were busy flying to BNE for lunch :!:

 

[pauly7]

Some of us were busy flying to BNE for lunch :!:

Excuse accepted as no inflight WIFi.... Yet !

 

[medhead]

Read the first post and almost jumped in the car to go to the airport. Lucky I read a bit further first.

 

[JessicaTam]

Just received a phone call from my daughter who has a friend on a Virgin flight to Qld. Apparently two virgin aircraft have collided on the tarmac at Adelaide with significant damage. No injuries as far as I know. I'm unable to find anything on main stream media.

JB

Read the first post and almost jumped in the car to go to the airport. Lucky I read a bit further first.

Perhaps the first post could be edited too.

 

[cosi]

The Age has this report

Jetstar, Virgin planes in tarmac bingle at Melbourne Airport