Two Delta planes collided on the taxiway at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Worldwide Airport on Tuesday morning, leaving one of many planes on the tarmac with an almost severed tail, images present.
Each plane had been getting ready to take off simply after 10 a.m. when the wing of the bigger aircraft, an Airbus A350 heading to Tokyo, struck the tail of a CRJ-900 jet heading to Lafayette, Louisiana, Delta mentioned in a press release.
Video and images posted to social media present the tail of the smaller aircraft ― operated by Endeavor Air, a subsidiary of Delta ― folded over at a 90-degree angle.
No accidents had been reported, although a complete of 277 clients between each planes needed to be transported again to the terminal and rebooked on totally different flights, the airline mentioned.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the Nationwide Transportation Security Board each mentioned they’re investigating the incident, with an NTSB spokesperson telling JHB that the company will launch extra info as soon as it turns into obtainable.
Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Worldwide Airport has been constantly ranked the world’s busiest for passenger quantity, with 104.7 million passengers streaming via it in 2023, in accordance with Airports Council Worldwide’s newest information report. It additionally had the best variety of takeoffs and landings, per ACI, with 776,000 planes shifting throughout its runways final yr, or roughly 2,126 planes a day.