A TAP Air Portugal Airbus A330-900neo suffered damage to its winglet at Osvaldo Vieira International Airport in Guinea Bissau on Saturday morning.
The A330neo, with registration CS-TUJ, was performing flight TP1477 from Lisbon to Guinea with 232 passengers on board. The aircraft was moving to the apron when its left winglet collided in a lamp post and got detached from the wing.
The aircraft suffered no further damage, and the aircraft problem will be solved by a TAP maintenance team that will travel to Guinea this weekend. Was no damage other than material, which should now be resolved by a TAP technical team that will travel to Guinea-Bissau this weekend.
“The 232 passengers who were on board disembarked smoothly, and their safety was never at stake,” said an airline spokesperson, AndrĂ© Serpa Soares. The cause of the incident is being investigated.
“TAP is now making it possible, even today [May 1], for another plane and crews to transport passengers waiting for the Bissau-Lisbon flight,” he added. 247 passengers have booked tickets for the return flight.
The A330-900neo involved in this incident was delivered to the airline back in July 2019 and is currently 1.9 years old.
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