Oops!! Watch that wing!
Two aircraft collided while taxiing on the ground at Heathrow Airport in West London last night, with the BBC reporting that one aircraft was a British Airways Boeing 747 departing for Singapore and the other was a Sri Lankan Airlines Airbus A340.
The London Fire Brigade has confirmed that no-one has been injured in the incident which happened at 2213 BST.
The brigade said that one aircraft “clipped” the other but there were no reports of fire and neither plane sustained any damage.
A spokesman for British Airways described the incident on flight BA011 as a “minor collision”, adding that no-one was injured and an investigation had been launched.
A report by The Mole
John Alwyn-Jones
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