6 injured after airplane crashes into truck at Los Angeles airport

[Guest]

Someone screwed up big time and I suspect it was not the crew on the aircraft. link including video: http://globalnews.ca/news/3467141/airplane-crashes-into-truck-in-los-angeles/

May 20, 2017 5:00 pm

Updated: May 20, 2017 5:14 pm

6 injured after airplane crashes into truck at Los Angeles airport

By Staff The Associated Press

WATCH ABOVE: A plane landing at LAX airport Saturday clipped a utility truck on landing injuring six people.

LOS ANGELES – Authorities say a plane collided with an airport utility truck shortly after landing at Los Angeles International Airport, injuring as many as six people.

The Los Angeles Fire Department said Saturday that a commercial passenger jet collided with the truck around 2:30 p.m., causing the truck to overturn.

The department says six people from the truck were being treated, including one in critical condition.

Fire department spokesman Brian Humphrey had no additional details.

Messages to the FAA and airport representatives have not been returned.

[conehead]

I wonder what the guys in the truck were doing? Looks like an old catering truck? And some of them must have been riding in the back, you couldn't fit 6 people in that cab... Weird...

[AAS]

Perhaps groomers?

[Vsplat]

Judging from the orientation of the truck and assuming it was not spun around in some strange way during impact, it looks to me that it would have crossed in front of the aircraft from left to right (cockpit view) prior to impact.  How much time would that truck have been in view of the flight deck and what speeds were involved in taxi or the truck?  Looks like the aircraft took 30-50 feet to stop after contact.

Not for sure who was  moving and should not have been, but it seems to me that, at a lot of major US airports, there is this chronic game of chicken with the ramp vehicles weaving around moving aircraft.  ORD really sticks out in my mind as an example.

Vs

[John S.]

Perhaps the truck had gone from the pilot's left to right with plenty of time & room but stopped as soon as it got to the green 'safe' area. Can't tell if there is a ladder sticking up from the back of the truck as the winglet is in the way, but if there is one that would explain the slat dent and the tip-over.

[Kip Powick]

Closeup photos here....

http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4a9401b6&opt=0

 

 

[conehead]

From the comments, the lady driving the truck is in critical condition, as she was pinned under the truck.