{"id":25911,"date":"2025-07-27T21:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25911\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T21:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:49:08","slug":"virgin-australia-plane-damaged-in-collision-with-tug-vehicle-at-melbourne-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25911\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Australia plane damaged in collision with tug vehicle at Melbourne Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A Virgin Australia plane has collided with a tug vehicle at Melbourne&#8217;s Tullamarine airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The aircraft disconnected and hit the tug from the side at about 8:40pm on Sunday while it was being towed to the hangar for scheduled maintenance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A Melbourne Airport spokesperson said no passengers were on board and no ground staff were injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The plane impacted was a Boeing 737, typically used on Virgin&#8217;s domestic routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Footage showed the jet cracked along the front left side, with workers taping up the damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Virgin Australia said it did not expect any disruptions to scheduled flights on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Virgin Australia plane has collided with a tug vehicle at Melbourne&#8217;s Tullamarine airport. The aircraft disconnected and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[25253,64,63,99,1155,25254,25252,5866,12807],"class_list":{"0":"post-25911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-airport","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-plane","13":"tag-tug","14":"tag-tullamarine","15":"tag-vehicle","16":"tag-virgin-australia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}