- Delta Flight 295 sure for Tokyo collided with Endeavor Air 5526 sure for Lafayette, La. on Tuesday, Sept. 10
- DL295 was “taxiing out” when it “made contact with the tail of” Endeavor Air 5526, airline confirms
- The incident occurred “on the intersection of two taxiways,” based on the FAA
Two planes collided at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 10, each Delta and the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed.
At round 10:07 a.m. native time on Tuesday, Sept. 10, Delta Flight 295 sure for Tokyo was “taxiing out” when it “made contact with the tail of” Endeavor Air 5526 (a subsidiary of Delta) on an adjoining taxiway, the airline confirms in a statement. The Endeavor Air flight was headed for Lafayette, La.
The collision resulted within the tail of the a lot smaller Endeavor aircraft being almost sliced from the physique of the aircraft. The DeltaA350, the biggest aircraft in Delta’s fleet, suffered injury to its wing.
The incident didn’t trigger any recognized accidents to crew members or passengers, the airline says.
CBS senior transportation correspondent Chris Van Cleave compared the collision to “a semi truck and a small sedan coming collectively for a fender bender.” Noting, “On this case, it seems the wing tip of the A350 basically severed the tail or the stabilizer on the again for the aircraft.”
He added that “the passengers on the A350 most likely felt a thud. I think about the parents on the a lot smaller aircraft, the CRJ900, would have felt that way more intensely.”
Following the incident, passengers have been “transported again to the terminal” the place they have been accommodated on alternate flights, based on Delta. “There have been 221 prospects on DL295 and 56 prospects on DL5526.”
The FAA confirmed that they “will examine the incident” in a press release shared with PEOPLE.
The Nationwide Transportation Security Board can be investigating: “NTSB investigators are touring to the scene. A preliminary report is anticipated to publish in 30 days,” the company shared.
In February, the same incident occurred when two JetBlue planes made contact on the tarmac at Boston Logan Worldwide Airport.
“A JetBlue plane getting into a de-icing pad lane at Boston Logan Worldwide Airport (BOS) got here into contact with one other JetBlue plane on an adjoining de-icing pad lane, inflicting injury to 1 plane’s winglet and the opposite plane’s tail part,” the airline stated in a press release on the time.
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There have been no accidents reported by passengers or crew on both plane, the airline confirmed.
“Security is JetBlue’s precedence, and we’ll work to find out how and why this incident occurred,” the assertion concluded.