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Old 05-10-2015 | 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Eel135
In reference to the new captain and pretty new FO in PHX, the story is they were waiting for the gate crew, and in an attempt to reposition, they struck the winglet of a 757 with the left horizontal stab leading edge.

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You do realize the implausibility of that story? Unless he taxied first with his nose or wing under the 757's winglet to begin with, it would have been impossible to hit it based on the CRJ turn radius.