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|    Message 388 of 717    |
|    Vincent Coen to Aviation HQ    |
|    Korean 777 hits Icelandic 757 at Heathro    |
|    19 Nov 22 01:34:54    |
      REPLY: 2:292/854 1111281d       MSGID: 2:250/1@fidonet 637833ed       CHRS: UTF-8 2       TZUTC: 0000       TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.8 (Linux-x86_64)       Hello Aviation!              Thursday September 29 2022 12:08, you wrote to All:               > Two planes, from airlines Icelandair and Korean Air, collided at        > Heathrow airport on Wednesday evening. A spokesman for London's        > airport said there was a "minor collision" with no injuries, the BBC        > and The Guardian report.               > Images on social media show that emergency services rushed to the        > scene after the collision that allegedly occurred on the runway.        > Inside the Korean Air plane was a journalist from The Guardian, who        > writes that a passenger saw the left wing of the plane hit the tail of        > the Icelandair plane. That would have happened while taxiing.               > Footage shows damage to the tail of the Icelandair plane. Due to the        > incident, passengers would have to deal with delayed flights.               > The aircraft concerned are a Boeing 777-300 (registration: HL7782) of        > Korean Air and a Boeing 757-200 (registration: TF-FIK) of Icelandair.              May be all pilots need to have English tests like they do in the UK.              Want to change my address on my PPL and Commercial licenses but the CAA insist       I take an English test at 30 - 50 pounds by a examiner.       Pointed out to them that I have lived in the UK for some 75 years and also        hold       other licences from MOD, USA, Barbados, Israel to name but a few and have        never       been asked this, despite holding a radio certificate for all of them for in       excess of 50 years.              They were not too impressed when I asked if the language (English) has changed       in this time period :)                            Vincent              --- Mageia Linux v8 X64/Mbse v1.0.8/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707        * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 80/1 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 123/131 124/5016       SEEN-BY: 129/305 153/757 7715 203/0 221/0 1 226/30 229/110 111 112       SEEN-BY: 229/113 114 317 400 424 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120 1254       SEEN-BY: 240/1634 5832 8002 8005 280/464 5003 282/1038 291/111 292/854       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 301/1 313/41 317/3 320/219 322/757 335/364 341/66       SEEN-BY: 341/234 342/200 371/0 396/45 423/120 460/58 530/204 633/280       SEEN-BY: 712/848 770/1 2432/390 3634/12       PATH: 250/1 3634/12 240/1120 280/464 292/854 229/426           |
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