That's not the Ryanair plane
That's the American Airlines plane, which had just made a transatlantic crossing. Not sure if that's reassuring or scary.
The picture below it in the article shows much less dramatic damage to the Ryanair plane.
However, the Ryanair captain does seem to have been very blase about it. Women drivers, eh?
(, Sat 4 Aug 2012, 9:08, Reply)
That is as a direct result of the Ryanair crew's actions.
Their poor handling of a reported ground contact directly led to two damaged aircraft taking off.
There may not be much visible damage to the Ryanair plane's wingtip, but that doesn't mean it wasn't hiding structural damage. They should have informed tower of the reported collision, then asked for ground crew to come out and visually inspect both planes for verification. That all takes time though.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 4 Aug 2012, 9:29,
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