Watch: Strong Winds Force Two Parked Planes To Collide At Doha Airport & It Could've Been Worse
Going by the footage, a parked plane was pushed into another aircraft by strong winds during a storm. The video shows how the stationed aircraft moves due to the force of the wind. The incident took place in Doha.
In a rather freak incident, strong winds during a storm at Doha airport runway literally pushed an entire aircraft towards another one.
According to Cranfield Analyst, at the time of the incident there was a violent storm in the area; with winds gusts between 19kt (35 km/h) and 61kt (113 km/h).
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The 787, which was parked on the tarmac, was rotated 90 degrees and the cockpit hit the right side fuselage of the A350-900 ¨C possible registration A7-ALJ ¨C causing damage to both aircraft.
The video shows how the stationed aircraft moves due to the force of the wind. The incident took place in Doha on Thursday.
Incident: Qatar Airways parked 787-800 plane collided with another parked new A350-900 at Hamad international airport due to high wind and stormy weather. #aviation #avgeek #qatarairways @qatarairways #airport pic.twitter.com/4Ad0KWk9Ym
¡ª Cranfield Analyst (@CranfieldA) May 1, 2020
The tweet read, 'It happened yesterday, April 30 in Doha: a parked 787 Dreamliner Qatar Airways was pushed into a parked A350 by strong winds during a storm.'
A Twitter user wrote, "Depending on the strength of the wind the body of an aircraft + massive tailplane is enough weathercock the aircraft into the wind - early things we learn in pilot school. After all, aircraft are designed for airflow nose to tail, not side-on."
It happened yesterday, April 30 in Doha: a parked 787 Dreamliner Qatar Airways was pushed into a parked A350 by strong winds during a storm. Video received from a friend. @jonostrower @AirlineFlyer @winglets747 @brandonsblog @WandrMe @SpaethFlies @flightradar24 @MaxK_J @A350Blog pic.twitter.com/7zojpTQo0X
¡ª Aeronews (@AeronewsGlobal) May 1, 2020
Another person wrote "It might be good to instruct to @qatarairways ramp managers to check the parking brake is ON on all their aircraft generally at the apron, and even moor them in case of high winds forecast. Everybody else does it. Get real."
"I can understand the 787 getting spinned by the wind, but how does it move forward if the wind appears to be blowing from his front and not that rear side once it turns?
Maybe I'm not seeing the video quite clear," wrote another user.
