Corendon Boeing 737 clips airport fire truck at Friedrichshafen

A Corendon Airlines Boeing 737 struck a stationary airport fire-brigade vehicle during a tight turning manoeuvre at Friedrichshafen Airport in southern Germany on 1 October 2026, severely damaging the aircraft's left wing winglet. The jet, carrying 189 passengers and crew, had either just arrived or was repositioning when the collision occurred on the apron. No one on board or on the ground was injured, but the aircraft was taken out of service for inspection and the fire-brigade vehicle was damaged. Operations at the small Lake Constance regional airport were briefly disrupted, with passengers deplaned by stairs and the apron sealed off as German accident investigators examined the scene. The incident fed into a running week of aviation safety headlines after the Flydubai cockpit attack and small-aircraft crashes in the United States, and was among the most-read European aviation stories of the day on specialist sites and regional German media.