Iberia Airbus A350 Damaged By Botched Water Cannon Salute

You can't wash the stink off an Airpus.

This was in my hometown. The local avgeek community was thrilled, as this was the first scheduled A350 service to the city. There are dozens of angles of the incident, from the spotters expecting to film the salute and takeoff.

Very unfortunate situation, AI estimates the damage in the millions. There’s now the running joke that IB will “punish us” by flying the A321XLR from now on.

Lmao, love the A321 joke. Hope Iberia is not that bitter

Drug test the pilots and ramp crew and fire crew. Complete stupidity.

Thirsty people dying for lack of water , always the possibility of fire . And then the dumb airports waste the water in a "salute" .

no good deed goes unpunished

*Vicente del Bosque "oooof" meme from 2014 World Cup*

DEI strikes again.

Am I the only one who thinks water cannon salutes are generally a complete waste of time and resources? To be clear, there are absolutely times where it's warranted and a nice gesture, but it seems we are way to liberal with them nowadays. Upgrading from a 332 to a 359 on an existing route... I mean, really...?

Saying "we are way to (sic) Liberal" is the understatement of the decade.

Actually a "dumb" deed .

Goody. Let's have these guys do the water cannon salute for the Qatari 747 when it comes into service shortly. It will have a larger wingspan. You know he's going to want one

How would you know ORD …. you’ve never been close enough to one …. 🙂

Unless you are Bi?

Walter, yesterday you posted that you were on a transatlantic flight: I’m betting that you are unwilling to provide an airline name, flight and seat mumber?

Walter, yesterday you posted that you were on a transatlantic flight: I’m betting that you are unwilling to provide an airline name, flight and seat number, etc?

Agree. They can do something at the gate. Exceptions for something like an Olympic team.

Good idea. I’ll make sure to drink a lot of beer and stand ready to salute. The salute he deserves.

There seems to be a lot more aircraft accidents at airports lately. Hardly ever used to hear of any, now there are a couple a month

Why does the olympic team should get exceptions.

Sad to see. I'm sure they were inexperienced with jets that size, but still such an avoidable mistake...

so woke... /s

Looks like the fire truck’s cannon was also significantly damaged