V-Flyer

Seems an A340-600 has lightly scraped a blast fence at JFK.






Images from https://twitter.com/mytomcats/

It's the VS26. According to this site it's Lady Bird, G-VBUG.

Another photo, from @PIX11News

reports suggest it was being pushed back, in which case someone in the ground crew is in for a stiff talking to

inconvenient, at least no one was hurt

Would explain why G-VAST operated VS9 yesterday if they're an aircraft down at LHR

From sky news below

A Virgin Atlantic plane has been grounded at New York's John F Kennedy airport after its wing struck a fence before take-off.

The Heathrow-bound aircraft was being pushed by a vehicle from a departure gate when its wing hit a blast fence around 8.30am local time.

None of the 277 passengers and 14 crew aboard the plane was injured.

Virgin Atlantic said in a statement that the airline is working to arrange alternative flights for passengers as soon as possible.

A passenger on the plane who tweeted a picture of the incident wrote: "noooooo!! They crashed our plane into the blast fence!! I just want to go home!!"

A spokeswoman for Virgin Atlantic told Sky News all customers were being booked on to other flights to Heathrow.

She said there had been "minor damage" to a wing tip and the aircraft is due to fly back to London later.

However it will be a "positioning flight" and no passengers will be on board.

She told Sky: "The VS26 departing from JFK to London Heathrow today returned to the gate after a miscalculation by the tug caused minor damage to one of its wing tips.

"All customers disembarked the aircraft and our teams have made arrangement to get our customers on their way home tonight.

"Safety is our number one priority and we would like to apologise for the delay and any inconvenience."

virginboy747 wrote:Would explain why G-VAST operated VS9 yesterday if they're an aircraft down at LHR

With G-VYOU operating the BGI rotation yesterday as well, I imagine things were extremely tight at LHR

Daily Mail and the female passenger on board….http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rport.html

marshy11 wrote:Daily Mail and the female passenger on board….http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rport.html

Wow, what a truly awful person... Proper DYKWIA in full flow there, amazing work.

Maybe all staff, prior to starting actual work, should learn to park a plane?

I'd actually pay to watch that

Daniel Armstrong wrote:

marshy11 wrote:Daily Mail and the female passenger on board….http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rport.html

Wow, what a truly awful person... Proper DYKWIA in full flow there, amazing work.

I see this was to get the munchkin to the high end fashion event being run by Top Shop.

Again people who think the world revolves around them , I am sure the other 100 and so passengers need to be somewhere too . There are to many things happening around the world than missing a fashion show. Grow up you self centred little girl

Who?

Let's hope she keeps to her word and never flies VS again, so none of us ever have to share a plane with her.

If I were VS I'd sue her for the "risked our lives" line when it's blatantly not true.

According to flightstats.com the VS flight was due to depart at 08.15.

The next direct departure to LHR isn't then until 18.25 (an AA flight) and the next VS (VS4) is at 18.30 ! so where were these other options this z-lister was going on about??