Two planes collided with each other at JFK Airport Saturday, aviation officials said.
Fortunately, no injuries were reported when an Air India flight hit a JetBlue plane heading for West Palm Beach, Florida. Air India flight 102 had just landed on the tarmac around 6:19 am and was taxing toward the gate when the left wingtip hit the rudder of JetBlue flight 145, which was carrying about 150 passengers.
A passenger on board the Air India flight said, “There was a noise. You could feel the vibration but I didn’t know what happened.”
The JetBlue plane, whose passengers were forced to disembark, were stopped at the gate waiting to have a tow bar replaced when the accident happened, according to a statement from the airline.
A transportation source said, “At the end of the day, this is a minor situation. There were no injuries and, not too long after that, passengers that were on the plane went on a new flight and were taken out.”
Plane collisions are incredibly uncommon, but that doesn’t mean they don’t happen at all.
Earlier this year, two jets collided at Miami International Airport. An Aerolineas Argentinas Airbus and an Air France 777-300, carrying a combined 540 passengers, hit each other between concourse J and H on January 18. No one was injured in the incident, but both planes sustained damage during the collision. One plane had its wingtip damaged and the other took damage to its tail section.
In Holland last year, two planes collided and got stuck together in mid-air. No one was injured on either plane and both were able to make emergency. Astonishingly, the entire incident was caught on camera. The cameraman, Eric Donk, captured the moment before a single-engine plane rose toward the plane he was a passenger on. He also managed to capture the two planes actually getting stuck together.
When that happened, both planes began plummeting toward the ground. Both pilots were able to maintain their composure and safely land the aircrafts. One landed on a beach with a damaged wing while the other returned to an airport in Rotterdam.
In another example of plane-on-plane violence, on the last day of 2012, a Spirit Airlines flight that had just landed at Fort Lauderale International Airport hit a parked jet with its wingtip. Again, miraculously, there were no injuries reported on either flight, and the plane was hit in an area where planes are normally stored overnight.
Does hearing about plane collisions make you afraid to fly?
UPDATE 1:33 pm:
The FAA has said that the two planes were not under air traffic control at the time of the collision. The administration also said that the exact cause of the accident was still under investigation.
[Photo credit: Christopher Parypa / Shutterstock.com]
What about the Samoyed?
Here we go with the "tarmac" BS again… Tarmac is a primitive paving material similar to chip and seal… A mixture of tar and gravel, developed in 1800s Britain… Last time I checked, JFK was paved with CONCRETE… There may be some ASPHALT overlay in areas… Tarmac is not capable of supporting the weight of a large commercial airliner, and tends to be associated with FOD… FOD destroys turbine engines… The aircraft collided on the RAMP…
I wish articles were proofed before being posted.
I think Obama and Mooshell were out of town so the news media needed something to wind up.
This is a poorly written article. It mentions multiples times that there were no injuries, and yet several more times it refers to injured passengers. What passes for editorial content on Yahoo! leaves a lot to be desired. Inane topics rife with reporting inaccuracies, grammatical and spelling errors.
somebody can't drive where'd he get his license at monkey ward.
Agreed.
There goes the chance for a vanishing deductible….
Another plane oopsy daisy, huh? Doesn't anybody know how to fly a plane anymore? What was going on in the tower? Were the folks up there just don't know what they are doing, or on coffee breaks? Also, planes these days, are about as horrible as badly made automobiles, just practically plastic and tin foil. Think the friendly skies are having about as much trouble in the sky and on the tarmac as car traffic in any congested city. What a mess! Glad no one was killed!
Collena Whitbeck — this is just the kind of news I need before flying Wednesday.
"Plane collisions are incredibly uncommon, but they do happen more frequently than people would think." I see, so they're more common than I'd expect, but less common than I'd even believe. Makes sense.
One of the reasons I see all those work-at-home yahoo employees need to be in the office and their work proof read. Did the passengers that were injured get help? Did they fly on after all? What were their injuries? How did this happen in the first place? Was the pilot on the India Air not looking? Did the tower not let the landing plane know there was a plane still at the gate area disabled? When I am flying the plane is far away from the gates then taxi in so how in the he** did this plane not be able to either move further out or stop and wait? Yahoo is revamping and should. No wonder they are slipping.
It should state in the headline "BUMPED" not collided! Then at the end describing plane collisions in mid-air , trying to beef up the story more than it is…then adding "fuel to the fire", so to speak by saying " Does hearing about plane collisions make you afraid to fly?"
The WEREN'T FLYING IN AIR AT THE TIME! they "BUMPED" on the tarmac…yes, an accident indeed, but no one was injured!
Why can't they ever be accurate? The caption should be Air India plane hits Jet Blue plane parked on tarmac.
God, what a bunch of whiners. It said no injuries at the top, and I didn't see anywhere else where it mentioned injured passengers later in the article. Does anybody actually read? Sure, you noticed a few errors, good job. It was probably written by a journalism intern and now you've just officially crushed their soul. It also mentioned that they were transferred to another flight, so that answers your question. I swear people online only read every other word of a news article, and then just figure out any way to criticize its minor faults. As you said, the topic was inane, so who cares if it had a mediocre article?