Two Airplanes About To Take Off Clip Each Other Wing To Tail At US Airport
Two airplanes taxiing while preparing for takeoff at Newark Liberty International Airport on Wednesday night clipped each other, authorities said.
The incident which happened around 7:30pm at one of America’s busiest airports, Federal Aviation Administration officials said left no one injured. A Scandinavian Airlines plane’s left wing clipped the tail of a United Airlines plane while they were on a taxiway.
Scandinavian Airlines Flight 908, bound for Oslo, Norway, was directly behind ExpressJet Flight 4226, destined for Nashville, Tennessee, on the taxiway and was turning right to get onto another taxiway when its wing clipped the ExpressJet plane’s tail, officials said.
The ExpressJet plane was towed back to the gate, and the Scandinavian Airlines plane taxied back to the gate, where passengers disembarked, New York’s WNBC-TV reported. The accident is being investigated. ExpressJet Airlines released a statement Wednesday night saying it is “working in coordination with officials to determine a cause.” All 31 passengers on the plane were re-accommodated, the airline said.
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