One commercial air transport airplane accident — a nonfatal ground collision between two taxiing Airbus A330s at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport — was reported in France in 2018, according to a report by the French Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses (BEA; Table 1).
The BEA’s 2018 Annual Report, made public in May, said that the collision “only had material consequences” for the two airplanes, one of which was taxiing on a taxiway while the other had stopped at a taxiway leading to a runway.
The accident was one of three commercial air transport accidents that occurred in France in 2018, the report said. The two others, both of which were also nonfatal, involved hot air balloons being flown on revenue sightseeing flights; in each of those accidents, one passenger was seriously injured during the landing.
