Emirates Airbus plane bumps into Ethiopia’s new Boeing

ReadBy Tesfa-Alem Tekle
January 8, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) – A recently delivered Ethiopia’s new Boeing 777-200 LR, one of the first ever owned by an African airliner, has collided with an Emirates’ Airbus A340 at Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport.
The incident happened on Tuesday when the Emirates plane, bound for Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport, prepared and accidently bumped into the standing Ethiopian Boeing which had earlier landed from the US.
On January 5 The Reporter, a bi-weekly Ethiopian newspaper reported - The Emirates airbus hit the Boeing 777 on its tail Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) with its left wing, while heading to the runway to take-off. The airbus’ left wing began to smoke and could not take off until it underwent maintenance.
Following the incident, the Ethiopian Boeing was forced to cancel its flight scheduled to take off at 10:15PM to the US. It said the tail of the plane was cracked by about 15 cm.
However, speaking to Sudan Tribune a worker who witnessed the incident on a condition of anonymity downplayed the report saying as “only a minor accident”.Read More