It’s pretty common to see special flights get water salutes. This can be done for many reasons — to celebrate a new route, to honor military members, to commemorate a pilot’s retirement, etc.
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Reminds me of the time (2015) when MAN airport fire crews gave Virgin Atlantic A330 'Beauty Queen' a water cannon salute. But instead of spraying the plane with water, the fire crew mistakenly coated it with fire-suppressing foam causing the flight to be delayed overnight.
It's an A320, so the overwing exits open inwards (the panel is pulled in manually and then thrown out). At altitude, air pressure is holding the panel firmly in place as a plug, but on the ground, it seems the water pressure managed to push the panel in. Once "opened", the slide would deploy automatically. That's really unfortunate.
Saudi Arabia’s founding day was September 23rd, 1932, according to Wikipedia, so that would make the country 86 instead of 88?
I hope they fix the water cannon, and/or train the water cannon operator better, before the fire department needs to respond to an actual aircraft fire. Just imagine that plane in flames and the water getting nowhere near it.
@hong konger wouldn’t get away with such a racist comment if it were directed at a different group.
Imagine he’d said “Jews will be Jews” or blacks will be blacks”.
Whatever happened to moderating offensive comments? selective tolerance to racism, I guess.