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That is a type of tales the place I’m unsure the best way to make sense of it. On October 11, CCTV video footage confirmed a tug driver at Toronto Pearson Worldwide Airport (YYZ) making an attempt to tow an Air Canada Boeing 737 MAX 8 in between two firm Airbus A321s, ensuing within the MAX 8 wings placing each wings of the adjoining Airbus plane.
The plane within the video have been all parked to the north east facet of the airport close to runway 24 proper. The incident passed off at stand H15. Should you zoom in utilizing Google Maps, you’ll see this stand has three parking strains, that being H15A, H15 and H15B.
Often, these bundled parking strains provide numerous parking mixtures for small and huge plane. Whereas I have no idea the precise specs for this stand, my guess is a bigger plane similar to a Boeing 777 could also be parked on the primary line (H15), but when two smaller airplanes (similar to two Airbus A321s like above) are parked subsequent to one another, they might use H15A and H15B, with enough spacing between the 2.
Nonetheless, with these two being parked subsequent to one another, the primary H15 line turns into unusable. My guess is the ramper driving the tug was not paying consideration and thought that H15 was a often sized stand, ensuing within the collision.
It seems these stands are used to briefly park planes earlier than they’re later repositioned to a gate for one more flight, and would possibly clarify why there have been no wing walkers current to alert the motive force of the upcoming collision.
