LOL!

@John Butler

Best comment for ages :-)

On some aircraft the pilots can’t see their own wing tips. The accident report should find out what went wrong anyway.

Of course they know their wingspan but we are talking about the A380 here. Its a massive aircraft and almost impossible to judge distance. A380 wingspan is almost 80m. If you drove a car that was that wide would you be sure as to the exact clearance from an obstacle?

Anyway, my point above is merely academic. Reason being, I suspect the CRJ was waiting to park on stand but no marshaller was present so the pilots elected to “hold short” of the stand but neglected to inform the tower.

The tower would have assumed the CRJ was on stand and gave taxi instructions to the A380. The pilots of the A380 were probably busy doing Before take off checklist and having been given taxi instructions carried out those instructions and may have not been aware the CRJ had stopped short.

Purely my opinion based solely on the video above.

It would seem AirFance was in the centre of their taxiway. Nothing more you can do. It may be the fault of the smaller aircraft or that of someone that told it to stay there..it’s hard to see on the video if its parked or moving slow.
Airfrance looks to be taxiing quite fast also…