The close call, which saw a London-bound American Airlines jet taxi across in front of a Delta aircraft that was taking off, is also under investigation by the FAA. The news of the collision comes after a tense audio recording captured air traffic controllers’ panic as two commercial planes nearly collided at the airport on Friday night. No injuries were reported, and the FAA will investigate.” “The flight was going to Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. “JetBlue Flight 1603 struck the tail of a parked JetBlue aircraft while pushing back from the gate around 7am at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York,” the FAA said.
JetBlue said both of them will be taken out of service. The planes were of the same model – Airbus A320s. The plane “came into light contact with a parked unoccupied aircraft during pushback,” a spokesperson for JetBlue said, according to NBC New York. No injuries were recorded, officials said, but the FAA will investigate the incident. The flight took off at 7.50am once all the passengers had boarded another plane. The struck aircraft had no one inside it.
Officials said that Flight 1603 to San Juan, Puerto Rico was set to take off at 6am, but the aircraft was taken back to the gate and out of service after it struck the tail of another plane operated by the same airline.
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