The tips of the wings of two passenger aircraft “butted” against each other in Japanese airport on Thursday (February 1), an airport official said. This is the latest in a series of plane crashes in the country.
According to the information so far, no one was injured in the incident in which the two were involved aircraft her All Nippon Airways at Osaka's Itami Airport for domestic flights.
“We were told that the wingtips of two ANA planes hit each other” shortly after 10am, a spokesman for Kansai Airports, which manages Itami, told AFP.
No passengers or crew were injured, local media reported, just weeks after a series of plane-related problems made headlines in Japan and abroad.
The most serious was an almost catastrophic collision at Haneda Airport between one of its aircraft Japan Airlines and a smaller Coast Guard aircraft on January 2.
All 379 people on board the JAL Airbus escaped shortly before the aircraft burst into flames. Five of the six people on board the smaller aircraft died.
Also in January, snowy conditions caused the wingtip of a Korean Air jet to strike an empty Cathay Pacific jet while taxiing at an airport in Hokkaido.
Source: News Beast
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