News Forum - Thai Airways plane collides with EVA Air aircraft on Tokyo Haneda runway

[Thaiger]

A Thai Airways flight TG683 collided with an EVA Air flight BR189 on a runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, causing no reported injuries. Approximately 260 people were on the Thai airline, while approximately 200 were aboard the EVA Air aircraft. Thai Airways has explained that the incident occurred when the plane was moving towards the … …

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[BigHewer]

No injuries, which is great news.

Cue a flood of discount flights between Japan and Thailand, as Thai Airways cuts fares and the LCC carriers shadow them.

Japanese are very risk averse flyers and this incident was widely reported in the media here today.

[Faraday]

Bet there were a few expletives uttered by the Cabin crew...

Good that all are safe. 

[HolyCowCm]

Well wasn’t me. I might be over qualified with my play station hours put in. 

[Faraday]

Close up of wing damage.

 

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2589139/runway-closed-at-tokyo-airport-after-plane-contact

 

 

[Faraday]

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[GKThai]

We will find out in due course as to who was in the wrong.

If the TG aircraft was following the correct taxiway  marking, then it's possible that the EVA flight had stopped a little too short and its tail was too close to the taxiway behind it, and obviously the alternative is that the TG aircraft was not following the taxiway marking correctly and was too close to the EVA aircraft tail.

We shall see. No pilot wants this on their record, so I can only assume that it was a genuine error.