A report from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) blames miscommunication between crew and ground staff for causing the collision of a Malaysia Airlines A330 with an aerobridge at Melbourne Airport on March 31. The ATSB report states that the captain had engaged the plane’s parking brake before carrying out an external inspection. When the aircraft maintenance engineer saw the park brake indicator light on the nose landing gear, he assumed the park brake would remain on and removed the main landing gear chocks. This was determined to be “out of sequence with the relevant procedure” according to the report,

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