Delta, United planes clip wings at Burbank airport

[Swordsmyth]

A Delta flight clipped the wing of a United Airlines aircraft after landing at Hollywood Burbank Airport on Tuesday night, though it’s unclear which aircraft was at fault for the collision.

SkyWest flight 4673, operating as a Delta Connection flight, had just landed from Salt Lake City and was taxiing to gate B1 when it struck the wing of the empty United plane parked at B2, KTLA reported.
"It felt like we hit a body," SkyWest passenger Bernadette Kashden told the station. "I said, 'What did we just hit? We actually just hit somebody?' And the guy who was sitting right by the wing looked over and said, 'No, we hit that plane; knocked its wing off.'"
Despite the second passenger’s assessment, photographs from the site of the crash show both wings largely intact.


No injuries were reported, a spokesperson for Delta confirmed.
"After a routine landing in Burbank, California, a wingtip of SkyWest flight 4673, operating as Delta Connection from Salt Lake City to Burbank made contact with another aircraft wingtip while taxiing to the gate,” Delta tells Fox News in a statement. “There were no injuries and all 42 passengers deplaned normally through the main cabin door."
Another SkyWest passenger, who spoke with KCAL, claimed that the pilot of the SkyWest flight suggested the United aircraft was to blame for being parked incorrectly at B2.

More at: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/0...-hit-body.html

@Danke

[oyarde]

Air travel , self driving cars and electric cars are dangerous . I prefer safer hobbies like Bourbon.

[brushfire]

As far as incidents go, this is probably the most common type. One aircraft, clipping another aircraft or structure, while on the ground.