Capone wrote:
ChickenLittle wrote:
Oh Mon Dieu Pierre!!!! Avez-vous entendu cette "bump"?


CL, any idea how something like that could happen?  I wonder who will pick up the tab...

Insurance will pick it up.

The A380 is moving at a pretty good clip which suggests that they didn't know/see that the CRJ was there, but that area of JFK is notoriously tight in terms of spacing.  Unfortunately for the A380 crew, it's their responsibility to know it's there since traffic avoidance is the crew's responsibility 100% of the time.

And boys and girls, that's one of the reasons why you DO NOT unfasten your seatbelt until you're at the gate and the crew turns off the fasten seatbelt sign.  Anyone standing up in that CRJ would have been seriously hurt.
  

"C'mon Reg, how many times do I have to remind you? Be conservative, not retarded." - (c) Rusty Iron Ring 2011