40That concept thus encompasses, by way of the occurrence of such ‘external’ events, a collision between an aircraft and a bird (see, to that effect, judgment of 4 May 2017, Pešková and Peška, C‑315/15, EU:C:2017:342, paragraph 26), damage to an aircraft tyre caused by a foreign object, such as loose debris lying on an airport runway (see, to that effect, judgment of 4 April 2019, Germanwings, C‑501/17, EU:C:2019:288, paragraph 34), the presence of petrol on an airport runway which has led to the closure of the runway (see, to that effect, judgment of 26 June 2019, Moens, C‑159/18, EU:C:2019:535, paragraph 29) and a collision between the elevator of an aircraft in a parking position and the winglet of another airline’s aircraft, caused by the movement of the latter aircraft (see, to that effect, order of 14 January 2021, Airhelp, C‑264/20, not published, EU:C:2021:26, paragraph 26), but also a hidden manufacturing defect or acts of sabotage or terrorism (see, to that effect, judgments of 22 December 2008, Wallentin-Hermann, C‑549/07, EU:C:2008:771, paragraph 26, and of 17 September 2015, van der Lans, C‑257/14, EU:C:2015:618, paragraph 38).
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