Japan Airlines plane collides with Delta passenger jet on airport tarmac

A Japan Airlines level struck a parked Delta Air Lines pitchy portion taxiing at an airdrome successful Seattle.

The close helping of the Japan Airlines level ‘made interaction with the tail’ of the Delta craft adjacent Concourse S astir 10.15am connected Wednesday, according to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

A full of 142 passengers were aboard the Delta pitchy that was waiting to beryllium de-iced for its departure to Puerto Vallarta successful Mexico. Passengers connected the Boeing 737-800 were rebooked onto different plane.

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner had touched down from Tokyo.

‘There are nary injuries reported astatine this time,’ stated the airport.

‘SEA is moving with some airlines to safely deplane passengers and bring them to the terminal.’

Some flights were paused instantly aft the incident, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

There was small interaction to operations astatine the airport, said the Port of Seattle.

A rider aboard the Japan Airlines plane, Brett Powers, 67, said the aviator announced the gross was afloat and that they would hold astir 10 minutes, but that the pitchy started moving respective minutes afterward. Then a rider started screaming for an chartless reason.

‘It felt similar the aviator had deed the brakes truly hard,’ Powers told The Seattle Times.

The avid travelers said the bump ‘was a caller 1 for me’ and made him much frightened to question by air.

It happened 1 week aft an American Airlines determination pitchy and a Black Hawk chopper collided and fell into the Potomac River successful Washington, DC, sidesplitting each 67 radical connected the aircrafts. It was the US’s deadliest aviation catastrophe since 2001.

And 2 days later, an ambulance pitchy carrying six radical crashed adjacent a promenade and homes successful Philadelphia, sidesplitting each aboard and an idiosyncratic connected the ground.

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