A Japan Airlines jet sliced the tail of a Delta Air Lines plane at Seattle Airport Wednesday morning.
At 10:17 a.m. PT, a taxing Japan Airlines plane struck the tail of a parked Delta Air Lines plane at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA).
The airport said the incident occurred on a taxi line between S Concourse and the south airport maintenance hangars.
No injuries were reported and there was minimal impact to airport operations. Images shared on social media show the Japan Airlines wing cut through the Delta tail.
‘So, we were sitting on the tarmac at SeaTac and another plane ran into us, just casually sliced into our tail. Very scary,’ one witness said on X.
‘While in sequence for deicing, the tail of a Delta 737 aircraft reportedly made contact with a wing tip of another airline’s aircraft,’ a Delta spokes person told DailyMail.com
‘There are no reports of injuries for crew or customers on the flight, and we apologize for the experience and delay in travels.’
There were 142 customers on the Delta flight from Seattle to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The company said they are working to get passengers on a new aircraft.
A Japan Airlines jet sliced the tail of a Delta Air Lines plane at Seattle Airport Wednesday morning
At 10:17 a.m. PT, a taxing Japan Airlines jet struck the tail of a parked Delta Air Lines plane at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
The collision comes as the country is reeling from a week of devastating aviation crashes.
An American Airlines jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on January 29, killing all 67 people involved – marking the deadliest air disaster in the country since 2001.
Sixty passengers on the American Airlines regional flight and four crew members were heading to Ronald Reagan National Airport from Wichita, Kansas, when it was hit by a Black Hawk Army helicopter conducting a training flight.
Salvage crews have recovered the bodies of all 67 people killed from the icy waters of the Potomac River.
Washington DC’s airspace is notoriously congested and there have been mounting fears that a tragedy was on the horizon.
On Friday, a medical transport jet with a child patient, her mother and four others aboard crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff, exploding in a fireball that engulfed several homes.
All six people on board and a seventh person inside a vehicle on the ground died in the crash.
Philly Mayor Cherelle Parker said two more people who were hurt on the ground have been identified on Monday, bringing the total to 24 injured.
This is a developing story…
