The French Introduce The World To Another Of Their National Pastimes

Posted by GregB on April 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

'THE GALLIC ART OF AVIATION PRANGING'

An Air France Airbus has clipped the tail of a commuter plane while taxiing at New York’s John F Kennedy Airport.

The smaller Comair jet could be seen spinning violently on its wheels as a shower of sparks fell from the impact point just after 2000 on Monday.

The Paris-bound Airbus A380 carried 495 passengers and 25 crew, Air France said. The Comair jet had 62 passengers and four crew. No-one was injured.

Air France gave a Gallic shrug of its collective shoulders  and passed the incident off as a good piece of parking.

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