Two weeks ago, I wrote this article: Not again: Air Canada airplane nose smashed by reckless driver. It was about an Air Canada flight from Montreal to Casablanca that was delayed after a catering truck clipped the nose of the Airbus A330 and put it out of commission.
When I wrote the post, I was thinking this wasn’t the first time something like this had happened and sadly it probably wouldn’t be the last time. However, I didn’t think it would happen again so soon … looks like just a week after the last one, according to A Fly Guy network.
They posted a video (embedded below) on their Instagram account with the caption: “The moment an Alaska Airlines plane is hit by an LSG catering truck. An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 sustained damage after it was struck by an LSG Sky Chefs catering truck at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. According to unconfirmed reports, the incident occurred last week in the early morning hours while the plane was being towed. Limited details have been released, but photos shared with A Fly Guy’s Network show significant damage to both the aircraft and the truck.”
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This is nuts. In the video, you can see how fast the driver was going and how hard the impact was and that’s before A Fly Guy showed the aftermath photos of damage to both the truck and aircraft.
No doubt there seems to be a huge increase in the number of similar airport and airline incidents in the last year or so. I was thinking maybe it’s because there are now cameras everywhere and everyone has access to social media so we see every incident. But I don’t think so. I think it’s because there’s been such a huge demand in travel after the pandemic, and most people want to work from home, so airlines, airports, catering and other similar companies are having a difficult time finding qualified people to work and/or the companies aren’t properly training and vetting employees.
I’m quite shocked that this took almost a week to come out and I’m guessing that because it took place late at night, Alaska and LSG were able to keep it quiet. I’m sure Alaska didn’t want to release the news especially since last week they closed their merger with Hawaiian Airlines.
I also assume there were no passengers onboard because otherwise, there’s no way it would have taken so long for this to become public. If there were passengers onboard, I hope they were wearing their seatbelts while pulling up to the gate because they would have been thrown if they weren’t.
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