Thai Airways plane clipped wings with SIA aircraft in Bangkok Airport

SINGAPORE: -- A Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft was slightly damaged when it clipped wings with a passing Thai Airways aircraft at Bangkok's international airport.

SIA said the ground incident took place around 9pm Singapore time on Tuesday.

Its aircraft, Flight SQ68 from Singapore, had just landed and was stationary on the taxiway when the Thai Airways Airbus A330 struck its left wingtip.

None of the 276 passengers or 16 crew onboard the Singapore Airlines was injured.

The accident cracked the wing of the Thai Airways plane.

As part of the investigation, the pilots of both aircraft will be interviewed by the Thai authorities and the pilot responsible could have his licence revoked.

Stephen Forshaw, VP, Public Affairs, SIA, said: "It appears that the layout of the Bangkok airport has a lot of taxi ways that aren't running necessarily parallel to each other, but have intersections and for widebody aircraft with long wingspan, it appears that in this particular case, two aircraft with long wingspan have contacted."

"From our point of view, we want to understand what has occurred here, we're not happy that one of our aircraft has been damaged and will now be out of service for some days, and we need to work closely with authorities and conduct our own review as to what occurred there."

-- CNA 2005-04-20