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Received a telephone call from the great lakes regional operation center (roc) at about 1536 on July 1, 2012 to report that scandinavian airlines system A-330 aircraft, registration number oy-kbn had sustained some damage to the fuselage and landing gears when severe weather and high winds had moved through ord (Chicago O'Hare international airport) that afternoon. The scandinavian A-330 aircraft, was damaged while it was parked at the international terminal gate M-15. Apparently during the severe weather the jetbridge and the aircraft were bounced around and pushed into each other in the high winds. There were no passengers aboard other than 2 maintenance persons conducing maintenance and inspections. Shortly after this call from the roc, bae (british airways) maintenance, who was handling the scandinavian aircraft, was contacted and they stated that they were still assessing the damage to the aircraft at that time. After conversations with bae maintenance and the city of Chicago operations, authorization was given to move the aircraft to a hangar for maintenance if needed. On July 2, 2012, the ord bae maintenance office was visited and they stated that the damage to the aircraft had been assessed and they did not think that they could repair the aircraft locally so they planned on having the aircraft ferried back to copenhagen. An inspection of the aircraft was then conducted and it was noted that the jetbridge had caused a dent and some skin gouging near the L-2 door. There was no apparent damage to the nose or main landing gears as had originally been reported by the city of Chicago operations office. A review of the aircraft log record was conducted and the original log entry for this incident was entered into log page sequence number L520 for aircraft oykbn, for 01/07/12 and was as follows:"approx 30 mins after landing, high winds /53KTS/61MPH/ caused violent shifting of aircraft resulting in excessive NWS angle. Damage to fuselage around D2L& abnormal position of LH MLG pitch trimmer."about 2 days later, scandinavian airlines system sent in several of their technical services structural engineers to inspect the aircraft and reassess the damage and repair if possible. On July 5, 2012 during a visit to the bae ord maintenance office to follow-up on the maintenance progress I was able to meet with one of the structures engineer from sas technical services. The engineer, Mr. Iver sigbjorn hansson, stated that they had just about completed all of their checks and inspections of the fuselage damage and there was no significant structural damage other than the smooth dent near the L2 door with no breaks or cracks in the skin and some gouging. The nose and main landing gears had also been inspected and checked out and were ok since they had suspected that the nose landing gear had been rotated past it travel limits when it was bounced around at the gate during the high winds. After a few more check they would fly the aircraft back home. On July 6, 2012 aircraft oy-kbn was released for service and was flown with no passengers and reposition to stockholm sweden. The fuselage dent and gouge were carried forward and entered into their damage log for repair at a later date. The final log entry sign off of the log entry discrepancy quoted above in this report was as follows:"EO-A330-530048/570019/050004R01 performed. Task 32-51-00-720-801-A, performed. Ras 70564465/037/2012 issued for release."all documentation and photos will be retained within the ord FSDO incident file.