ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 121690
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| Date: | 11-APR-2011 |
| Time: | 20:06 |
| Type: |  Airbus A380-861 |
| Owner/operator: | Air France |
| Registration: | F-HPJD |
| MSN: | 049 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 510 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Taxi |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK) |
| Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG/LFPG) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
An Air France Airbus A380, registered F-HPJD and a Comair CRJ701ER, registered N641CA, both sustained minor damage in a ground collision occurrence at New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK).
The Airbus A380 was operating as flight AF007 to Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport with 485 passengers and 25 crew onboard. It taxied to the departure runway when the port wing of AF007 clipped the tail of the CRJ, spinning it through almost 90 degrees.
The CRJ, Comair Flight 293 was taxiing to the gate following a flight from Boston. There were 52 passengers and 4 crew onboard. No injuries were reported.
Sources:
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/04/12/355436/video-air-france-a380-hits-crj-while-taxiing-at-jfk.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/nyregion/12planes.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/04/11/new.york.plane.incident/index.html?hpt=T2
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/12/uk-airfrance-incident-idUSLNE73B03U20110412
https://ntsb.gov/Pressrel/2011/110412.html
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 29 Jan 2014 | F-HPJD | Air France | 0 | Over North-East Canada |  |
min |
| 4 Nov 2014 | F-HPJD | Air France | 0 | en route over UK |  |
non |
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Images:
Photo of F-HPJD courtesy AirHistory.net
Paris - Charles de Gaulle (LFPG / CDG)
1 June 2017; (c) Howard J Curtis
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 12-Apr-2011 07:34 | wanderer | Added |
| 12-Apr-2011 07:37 | harro | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn] |
| 12-Apr-2011 07:46 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Source] |
| 12-Apr-2011 07:49 | harro | Updated [Location, Embed code] |
| 12-Apr-2011 07:51 | Anon. | Updated [Registration, Cn, Embed code] |
| 12-Apr-2011 14:18 | harro | Updated [Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 12-Apr-2011 15:02 | harro | Updated [Embed code, Narrative] |
| 12-Apr-2011 15:13 | harro | Updated [Embed code] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:25 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
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