CHICAGO — CHICAGO (AP) — A United Airlines plane heading to the gate clipped the tail of another United plane at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, authorities said.
No one was injured in Friday's incident, and the 113 passengers on Flight 2652 from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, were able to deplane normally after a delay, United officials said in a statement.
The second plane had a damaged horizontal stabilizer and was not moving at the time of impact, officials said.
Bill Marcus, a passenger on the flight from Wyoming, said he didn't even realize anything had happened until the pilot said there would be a delay to document something and passengers on the plane saw several people gathered around the right wing.
“I was shocked that I didn’t feel something more, although there was some shaking when they separated the planes,” Marcus said. CBS Chicago News. It took the plane about 40 extra minutes to reach the gate, he said.
Earlier this month, two Delta Air Lines regional jets collided as they crossed taxiways at LaGuardia Airport in New York, injuring a flight attendant.
Runway collisions like this could heighten concerns about aviation safety after recent accidents and near misses including deadliest plane crash in the United States over the decades when the Army helicopter collided with an airliner prepares to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in January.
