{"id":27876,"date":"2022-11-16T17:55:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T12:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=27876"},"modified":"2022-11-16T17:55:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T12:25:56","slug":"damage-to-the-nose-on-five-month-old-aircraft-tug-gets-stuck-under-air-transat-airbus-a321neo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/16\/damage-to-the-nose-on-five-month-old-aircraft-tug-gets-stuck-under-air-transat-airbus-a321neo\/","title":{"rendered":"Damage to the nose on five-month-old\u00a0Aircraft tug gets stuck under Air Transat Airbus A321neo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The damaged aircraft is barely half a year old.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For airlines and aviation enthusiasts alike, one of the most heartbreaking situations is to see a relatively new aircraft get severely damaged through an unfortunate incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was what happened to a five-month-old Air Transat Airbus A321neo earlier this month when the aircraft received heavy damage to its nose during a standard towing procedure.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Airbus A321neo aircraft is C-GOIR, which took off on its 1st flight on July 8th this year. Just over a week later, on July 16th, the aircraft was delivered to Air Transat<\/a><\/strong>. The aircraft happens to be the 1st of 2 Airbus A321neos that Air Transat received this year, both of which were leased from Irish aircraft lessor AerCap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then 3 days later, on July 19th, C-GOIR operated its inaugural flight service for Air Transat as flight TS 628 from Montreal Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport to Nice Cote d’Azur Airport. Configured for 199 passengers in a two-class configuration, C-GOIR is mainly operated for the airline’s long-haul flights and is usually deployed to destinations in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Cuba, the Netherlands, Ireland, and the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, C-GOIR would be temporarily grounded after operating its last commercial flight TS 973, when it returned from Samana El Catey International Airport<\/strong> to Montreal Airport<\/strong> on November 2nd. The Airbus narrowbody was then ferried over to Vancouver International Airport on the same day, where the incident would occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time of writing, Air Transat has yet to reply to a request for an official comment on the incident, so the cause and what happened is yet to be completely determined. Regardless, the incident occurred either when C-GOIR was being towed or pushed back, and everything went along relatively smoothly until the tow bar allegedly failed by snapping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2022-11-02: Air Transat Airbus A321N (C-GOIR, built JUL 2022) took substantial damage at Vancouver Intl Airport (CYVR), Canada to its nose when the towbar snapped and the tug leaped underneath the fuselage. @fl360aero<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/0piNUPZ9kk<\/a><\/p>— JACDEC (@JacdecNew) November 15, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>