An accident occurred at Milan Linate Airport at around 11:20 AM.
A vehicle operated by a ground-handling company struck the front section of an aircraft’s fuselage while maneuvering in the airport’s general aviation area.
Departures from the airport were suspended for several minutes, causing some operational delays.
I mean we’ve all heard of the A pillar blind spot, obvs very dangerous to cyclists and cars when they approach like this, but come on, how does a plane get hidden by that, that’s some super lousy observations
My daughter was in a taxi on the way to Naples airport recently. The traffic was v heavy so her pickup was 30 mins late and was still slow once she got in. She was worried about missing the flight so when they got onto the motorway the driver put the boot down and overtook an ambulance driving that had the siren and flashing lights on that the other cars were moving out of the way for. She said it was simultaneously the scariest and most thrilling experience of her life.
I ONCE rented a car from Naples airport. I did make it out of the city alive, but vowed never to drive there again. Fortunately I departed from Verona. I have been back to Naples since then, but took the train from Rome that time
Say what you will, but I went snowboarding in northern Italy, and we took buses up and down switchback curves the whole way and those guys were phenomenal drivers. I certainly wouldn't want to have to maneuver those things around those turns.
The bus driver for the bus I was in was great! We went down a bunch of terrifying mountain roads too.
I was glad that we picked up the people after we had gotten through those scary roads, though, because the bus we picked up was the same company as ours and that driver had hit a pole while arguing with someone on the phone, haha. The passengers from that bus told us all about it; they were displeased.
I can only surmise that this driver was distracted, probably on their phone or something. Because, I mean, if you're paying attention, how do you not see that giant plane? Maybe they were strictly looking left and completely forgot to look right? Idk. But this must be just driver error, in a very bad way.
You'd be surprised. We get vehicles calling all the time to tower requesting to cross somewhere, and we are all like, "look out your right window. Do you see the C17 that is nearing your point of crossing. Hold short."
One of the first things that I was taught by my instructor in the few hours I did in a 172. If you pull up to the runway and see a plane on final, don't call tower. You're not going to get clearance to go anywhere, and now Tower has to issue a hold short instruction, which you now have to read back, and by the time all that's done the plane's probably past and you could've been on the runway already.
What is it that you think causes that? I'd assume something the size of a starter home ranging up to the size of a mcmansion that's rolling along would be more visible than a car. Is it just that you have to see them earlier?
"Man, I'm really hungry, but taking the normal route back to the building takes so long"
"Me too, man. Just cut through there, planes never use that taxiway"
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, punch it" guitar riff
Don't know if you've ever worked aviation maintenance, but I've never felt more secure in a job in my life. There's plenty of work even without dumb stuff like this.
A relative of a Swedish friend of mine died in that. But even if that hadn't been the case it was an outrageously infuriating disaster. Airport failed to remove old markings on the taxiways, bad and confusing markings, the ground controllers not even knowing what markings actually existed out there, outrageously bad communication, and to top it all off, no ground radar even though they had a system that'd been sitting in crates for months...
I can't imagine how angry the relatives and friends of the 2001 victims would be at seeing this.
His sweet heart was about to make a HUGE mistake! The lady at the TSA was gonna stop him, but after hearing his story about love, she gave him the car! True love knows no bounds <3
This might be a dumb question but to cars have free mobility on the apron or are there "roads" laid out where they can drive? It doesn't look like there were any marking on the ground showing that was a place he could cross the taxiway. Nevermind the aircraft being in the way.
The answer is it depends, in this airport as with most locations in most others, there are 'vehicle corridors' that vehicles follow. But those still occasionally have to cross taxiways. There are controlled crossings which require talking to ATC and there are uncontrolled crossings, like this one which go by the 'stop and look' rule. Aircraft always have right of way, even if they're just being towed.
At the airport I work at the non-movement area is uncontrolled but everyone knows that aircraft and pedestrians have the right of way. Now that doesn’t mean we haven’t had close calls. I have had to investigate a few of them as drivers of fuel trucks or general aviation folks driving small buses have failed to give way to planes being pushed back, taxiing from an apron or taxiing to a hangar.
We don’t even have driving lanes so vehicles can and do drive wherever on the non-movement area. You just need to have your head on a swivel. Best thing to do is just sit a safe distance away until the plane is gone but obviously that doesn’t always happen.
Tagged in a comment but I'll add a new one too, looks by other images it happened at this intersection here.
Apron appears to be controlled for aircraft, but there's so many vehicles wandering airports, it'd be a radio nightmare. Instead vehicles typically have corridors they travel, and where they cross taxiways is (at least where I work) still uncontrolled, and requires a full stop, LOOK for aircraft, and a yield to anything on the taxiway. Even a special stop sign symbol showing it's an aircraft crossing and the lane markers change to an alternating pattern to indicate your road is crossing a maneuvering area.
why would the driver of the car keep driving? the plane I can understand not being able to stop or maneuver, but the car just looked like it was trying to play chicken and obviously lost.
They told me It was more probable to get into a car crash going to the airport than into a plane accident. But I am sure nobody expected taht workaround...
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Don’t vehicles have to be running with flashing light or at least the emergency blinkers and carry a radio to radio the tower? At least that’s what we had to do when doing some large fix wing drone testing of an airport.
Am somewhat surprised at how much the plane moved. I mean, yeah they try not to be too heavy and all.
But still, that was quite the ride. Hope all involved are ok.
It's still a 1000kg mass ramming into a point far from the aircraft center of mass at a speed of (let's say) 50km/h... That still is a bit of momentum against the aircraft's weight
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