In two separate occurrences in mid-2025, an airbridge being positioned at Brisbane (Queensland, Australia) International Airport’s Gate 82 struck a parked Boeing 737, each time causing minor damage to the aircraft, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says.
Two different aerobridge operators from two different airlines each had the same goal — to drive the airbridge to a position where it was parallel to a parked airplane and then park the airbridge.
“However,” the ATSB said in its final report on the June 18 and July 26, 2025, incidents, “the aerobridge moved diagonally towards the aircraft until the bottom right corner of the aerobridge impacted the aircraft and broke through the aircraft cockpit windshield.”
Each time, although passengers had not yet disembarked, the collision caused minor damage but no recorded injuries.
The ATSB investigations of the two occurrences found that the airbridge operators “did not have visual re…
