Planes collide at New York airport
Two airplanes preparing for take-off from Newark Liberty International Airport clipped each other while taxiing to the runway, authorities have confirmed.
It was the third time in as many months that two aircraft have bumped into each other at US airports prior to take-off.
In the latest incident, which happened on Wednesday evening, the left wing of a Scandinavian Airlines Airbus A330 clipped the tail of an Embraer E145 regional jet operated a United Airlines partner while the aircraft were on a taxiway.
Scandinavian Airlines Flight 908, bound for Oslo was directly behind ExpressJet Flight 4226, destined for Nashville 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.
In March, two Southwest planes collided while pushing back from adjacent gates at Detroit Metropolitan airport. A week earlier, an Air India Boeing 777 hit a JetBlue Airways Airbus A320 as they prepared for take-off from JFK Airport in New York.
Linsey McNeill
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