ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 144215
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Date: | Saturday 3 March 2012 |
Time: | 12:45 LT |
Type: | McDonnell Douglas MD-88 |
Owner/operator: | Delta Air Lines |
Registration: | N918DE |
MSN: | 49959/2055 |
Year of manufacture: | 1993 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 144 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | Detroit-Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, MI (DTW/KDTW) -
United States of America
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Phase: | Taxi |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | LGA/KLGA |
Destination airport: | Detroit-Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, MI (DTW/KDTW) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:The crew of a Delta Air Lines McDonnell Douglas MD-88, performing flight DAL181, taxing to its gate at Detroit-Metropolitan Wayne County Airport - DTW/KDTW, MI, felt a bump as a wing tip clipped an empty shuttle bus and knocked it on its side.
No one was injured in the accident, but there was considerable damage to the plane and the bus.
The aircraft sustained damage to the left wing tip.
Obviously the shuttle bus was parked too close to the taxi area. The shuttle bus was unattended at the time time of the crash.
Sources:
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/03/03/bus-ends-up-on-side-after-being-clipped-by-delta-plane/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter http://www.fox2detroit.com/dpp/news/local/plane-hits-bus-at-metro-airport-20120303-rs
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
23 July 2018 |
N918DE |
Delta Air Lines |
0 |
Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, NC (CLT/KCLT) |
|
non |
Turbulence |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-Mar-2012 00:53 |
gerard57 |
Added |
05-Mar-2012 00:57 |
Anon. |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport] |
05-Mar-2012 05:41 |
RobertMB |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
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