rwoman
Aug 23, 12, 12:46 am
The Telegraph: Forklift truck driver fined £150 for causing £1 million damage to aircraft (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/aviation/9492837/Forklift-truck-driver-fined-150-for-causing-1-million-damage-to-aircraft.html#)
Ouch, that's a lot of damage!!! Not to mention the likely inconvenience to the passengers. I'm a bit concerned the driver claimed he forgot which type of vehicle he was driving...what the heck?!? I assume (which can be dangerous) this is his full time job and he SHOULD know!!
Dennis Jackson, 60, sliced through the tail of an SAS Airbus 321, with 175 passengers on board, as it prepared to fly to Copenhagen on June 12.
Uxbridge magistrates were told he had forgotten which vehicle he had been driving.
Engineers later found that his high loader was only inches away from the fuel line.
Such was the force of the impact that one member of the crew was knocked off her feet as she was standing in the cockpit.
Ouch, that's a lot of damage!!! Not to mention the likely inconvenience to the passengers. I'm a bit concerned the driver claimed he forgot which type of vehicle he was driving...what the heck?!? I assume (which can be dangerous) this is his full time job and he SHOULD know!!
Dennis Jackson, 60, sliced through the tail of an SAS Airbus 321, with 175 passengers on board, as it prepared to fly to Copenhagen on June 12.
Uxbridge magistrates were told he had forgotten which vehicle he had been driving.
Engineers later found that his high loader was only inches away from the fuel line.
Such was the force of the impact that one member of the crew was knocked off her feet as she was standing in the cockpit.