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| Date: | Sunday 21 February 2016 |
| Time: | c. 12:45 |
| Type: |  Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner |
| Owner/operator: | Ethiopian Airlines |
| Registration: | ET-AOQ |
| MSN: | 34745/49 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2012 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Harare-Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport (HRE/FVRG) -
 Zimbabwe
|
| Phase: | Taxi |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Addis Ababa Bole International Airport (ADD/HAAB) |
| Harare-Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport (HRE/FVRG) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
A Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, registration ET-AOQ, sustained damage to the no. 1 engine cowling in a ground incident at Harare Airport (HRE), Zimbabwe.
Flight ET873 arrived at Harare at 10:44 UTC. The continuing flight to Lusaka was cancelled. The aircraft is still on the ground at Harare as of February 22.
Sources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/470agc/ethiopian_788_just_impacted_a_jet_bridge_at_harare/
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/et-aoq/
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 21 December 2024 | ET-AOQ | Ethiopian Airlines | 0 | Near Moscow-Domodedovo International Airport (DME/UUDD) |  |
non |
Location
Media:
Stuck in Harare after Ethiopian Airline crashed the gate bridge on landing pic.twitter.com/OhnBmE8ub1
— Kenneth Melin (@KennethMelin) February 21, 2016
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-Feb-2016 12:58 | Anon. | Added |
| 22-Feb-2016 13:02 | harro | Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
| 22-Feb-2016 13:06 | harro | Updated [Time, Departure airport, Destination airport, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
| 12-Apr-2022 22:28 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location, Embed code, ] |
| 14-Feb-2025 11:52 | ASN | Updated [Destination airport, ] |
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