“”said no-one was hurt when the wing of their stationary plane was “bumped” by another jet.””
That’s a collision?
Would you feel entirely comfortable riding in a plane whose wing was “bumped” in its prior flight?
Might sound like nothing to you but I sure don’t want to be onboard when two fueled passenger jets make contact.
“ That’s a collision?”
A Republican congressman was on the plane. Bet the rats were hoping for an explosion. Wouldn’t put it past them.
Aircraft are both very delicate and robust simultaneously. They can take incredible stresses where designed to do so, but abnormal loading can cause major damage.
It’s like your knee joint, it can take hundreds of pounds in a vertical load, but only 40 pounds as a lateral load at the joint itself will cause it to dislocate.
Wingtips aren’t designed to take actual mechanical impacts, and any sort of impact on anything other than the doorframes or landing gear is by definition a collision.