Taxiing SWA 737 hits parked airplane in EWR

[Astro14]

From EWR: "There are no injuries after a taxiing Southwest plane struck wings with a parked airliner at an @EWR Terminal A gate shortly after 7 am. Passengers will be rebooked."

http://newjersey.news12.com/story/4...f-parked-plane-at-newark-liberty-airport

How many times has SWA banged up an airplane this week?

 

[PimTac]

I wonder how fast they were going?

 

[Sam_Julier]

Too fast for my tastes. It seems to be in their culture. At BDL Delta pilots taxi to runway 27 at a snails pace. Southwest pilots much faster. I don't see the point.

 

[JLTD]

Glad no one was injured. EWR is a mess and has had collisions before...and will again I expect.

 

[Sam_Julier]

I remember reading in AvWeek that the Continental ops would not have allowed an approach at Midway in the conditions that resulted in the Southwest overrun - and one fatality in the car that was struck.

Continental diverts or circles. Southwest makes the approach. Same plane.

 

[E365]

Especially bad on a 737 when the pilots can see the wingtips from the cockpit. Slightly different story on something like an MD80/90 series where you can't, and have little clue how close you really are.

 

[vw7674]

Southwest has a fuel-saving policy, no?
or they did a decade+ ago. So they rush to run-up, I guess.
And to the gate. Winglets be [censored].....

 

[billt460]

This classic always comes to mind. I wonder if those pilots got whiplash? To say nothing of the poor flight attendants walking the isles, telling the passengers to keep their seat belts fastened until the aircraft has come to a complete stop.