JFK: Air France/Delta Connection - Ground Accident

Years ago, when I was still an air traffic controller, and the Boeing 777 first came on the scene, there were a number of airports that were evaluated because of the wing-tip clearances being presented by what was then called the Next-Generation-Large Transport aircraft. If I recall my "airport-design" standards requirements the taxiway wingtip clearance area was to be ten (10) percent of half the wingspan plus 20 feet for the NGL aircraft. Therefore with a wingspan of reported 260 feet, the wingtip clearance area should be 33 feet, thus the taxiway object free area then was supposed to be 326 feet. Which from the diagram you can then see the potential problem.