This is purely anecdotal but at one point I was a de-icer at YYC long before the central facility was constructed.
There was a special license granted to some of us to be able to go gate to gate to spray planes before take off....and really to go anywhere else inside the the fences we needed to.
Anyhow the trucks we used were very similar to fire trucks even if a bit smaller. We would also fill them with the glycol to the point where we would easily weigh more than a lot of the jets we were spraying.
When driving around the grounds I was always looking forward and listening to control.....especially with the conditions. Lots of rain and lights everywhere is not an ideal combination.
I can certainly understand how the driver was not looking for the plane in this instance until it was far to late. And the pilot had zero chance to change what happened.
Really crappy confluence of events and circumstances.
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