The FAA is investigating after two planes clipped wings Friday morning at Newark Liberty International Airport. NickJCaloway reports.
It happened at around 8:45 a.m. and Port Authority Aircraft Rescue firefighters responded, as they do for all aviation emergencies at Port Authority airports.
A United Airlines Boeing 757 bound for Orlando was parked at a gate and waiting for departure when its left wing was clipped by the right wing of a United 787, a much larger aircraft being towed to the next gate, officials said. "Those are really big aircrafts and that could have been potentially dangerous. Hopefully everybody's OK," said Vielka Sanchez, a traveler from Minnesota.
Passengers were able to deplane normally and no injuries were reported. They were rebooked on later flights. There were no passengers on the second plane. On Jan. 18, a JetBlue flight preparing for takeoff at Kennedy AirportA few days earlier, disaster was narrowly averted on the JFK runway when an American Airlines planeThe Delta pilot slammed on the brakes and missed the other aircraft by about 1,000 feet.
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