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Two planes collided on a taxiway at Detroit Metro Airport on Tuesday morning. American Airlines Flight 1241, bound for Dallas, was traveling down the runway just after 6 a.m. when a wing hit the tail of a Southwest plane, Detroit Metro Airport spokesperson Erica Donerson said.
Southwest Airlines Flight 737 was on the de-icing pad at the time of the collision, and the American Airlines plane was heading to the pad at the time of the incident, according to Donerson.
AA plane hits Southwest plane in taxi way , you would think they have all the room in the world !!!!! pic.twitter.com/1Iwpb27WmV
— Carlos Salinas (@detroitdreamers) February 17, 2016
Jim Bishop of Rochester Hills, who was aboard the American Airlines plane, told WWJ passengers were stuck on the plane for three hours.
“We were taxiing over to get the wings de-iced and there was a plane sitting, kind of facing the opposite direction, and our wing came across the back of that plane and we were just too close to it and clipped the back,” he said. “It tore a piece of our wing off and the tail cone is cut completely off of the other plane.”
Bishop was headed to Mexico.
No injuries have been reported.
The cause of the incident is still unknown.
We just hit a parked plane. Lol pic.twitter.com/faypqSpoMj
— Regen Cavanagh (@Rcavy_24) February 17, 2016
Agencies/Canadajournal
