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Vietnam Airlines suspends 4 pilots after Boeing jet collides with parked Airbus on runway, slicing through tail fin
ny post ^ | 06/28/2025 | Chris Harris

Posted on 06/28/2025 3:59:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin

A Vietnam Airlines jet collided with a sister plane on the tarmac at Hanoi’s Noi Bai Airport, and shocking video shows the moment it slices through the aircraft’s tail fin in a wild runway collision.

The collision occurred at approximately 2 p.m. Friday, when a [Saigon]-bound Boeing 787 was taxiing for takeoff and struck an Airbus A321, parked on the tarmac, waiting to depart for Dien Bien, according to VNExpress.


The moment the planes collided was caught on video.
@Fahadnaimb / X

Vietnam Airlines has suspended the four pilots, two on each plane, in the wake of the accident, whose cause remains under investigation.

Preliminary findings suggest the Airbus was not parked correctly on the runway.

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1 posted on 06/28/2025 3:59:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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Did the pilots get out and exchange insurance info?


2 posted on 06/28/2025 4:01:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway ( )
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To: nickcarraway

Tarmac rage.


3 posted on 06/28/2025 4:02:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Exactly.


4 posted on 06/28/2025 4:05:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway ( )
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RE: plane slices portion of the tail of another plane....

(Sorry to those who read my joke made up for a previous couple of accidents. And to those who want good taste in humor.)

The pilot said to the copilot
“When I land this thing I am going to get me a piece of tail.”


5 posted on 06/28/2025 4:06:39 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: BenLurkin

Getting some new tail isn’t always a bad thing.


6 posted on 06/28/2025 4:07:11 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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RE: Did the pilots get out and exchange insurance info?

Flo was already there and they were thankful they had bundled their coverage with home, motorcycle and auto along with their personal liability from their flying jobs.


7 posted on 06/28/2025 4:08:49 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Even if it was parked in the wrong spot, you’d think pilots on the Boeing would know they didn’t have clearance.

Traffic rules apply - the person who had the ability to avoid the accident and didn’t is at fault.


8 posted on 06/28/2025 4:09:42 PM PDT by Skywise
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Slicing through the tail easily like knife thru butter. Kinda like a jetliner sliced through WTC like knife through butter.


9 posted on 06/28/2025 4:10:09 PM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: BenLurkin

Glad this happened on the ground.


10 posted on 06/28/2025 4:13:56 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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It was the right move to suspend all four involved pilots until things can be sorted out.


11 posted on 06/28/2025 4:14:10 PM PDT by House Atreides (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnVFlcTy0DcI’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX>)
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Yes....Wee Too Close and Ho Lee...well we all know the last name.


12 posted on 06/28/2025 4:16:06 PM PDT by xp38
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To: BenLurkin

Sidewinder missiles would have worked better.


13 posted on 06/28/2025 4:17:22 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: BenLurkin
Must be some of the Vietnamese trainee pilots my dad talked about in 1972..."Open your eyes...and pull up...PULL UP...PULL UP!!

They graduated and went home. Enid was a safer place after that.

14 posted on 06/28/2025 4:19:21 PM PDT by pfflier
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Wee Too Close and Ho Lee

and their colleague Hyung Wei Lo is the one looking for the piece of tail…

15 posted on 06/28/2025 4:28:18 PM PDT by rhinohunter (I don’t know if God is a Republican, but I am metaphysically certain that satan is a democrat)
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To: BenLurkin

Do they have DEI people in the tower or for ground control?


16 posted on 06/28/2025 4:38:36 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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17 posted on 06/28/2025 4:44:55 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Skywise

INCORRECT.
A pilot taxiiing on a defined taxiway has an expectation of clearance. It cannot always be determined from his cockpit that his aircraft is clear.


18 posted on 06/28/2025 4:45:36 PM PDT by A strike (Make RealID required for voting )
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To: BenLurkin
Is Gorilla Glue available in Vietnam?


19 posted on 06/28/2025 4:50:39 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: BenLurkin

Tis but a scratch!


20 posted on 06/28/2025 4:58:59 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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