Chinanews.com, February 4 (Xinhua) According to CBS and other reports, on the morning of the 3rd local time, two planes collided at an airport in New Jersey, and one of the planes was full of passengers.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating.
According to reports, at about 8:45 am on the 3rd, at the Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, a United Airlines Boeing 757 passenger plane preparing to fly to Orlando was hit by a Boeing 787 passenger plane while waiting to take off. .
The left wing of the 757, which was fully loaded with passengers, was partially snapped off in the collision.
According to the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Rebecca Blum, a passenger on the 757 at the time, said in an interview that she first heard a loud noise, then felt a vibration, and she could look out. It was clearly seen that "the wing of a larger plane hit the wing of our airliner".
"Passengers on the plane can feel a slight impact, but more can hear the loud sound of the impact," Bloom said.
Passengers on the plane were disembarked safely but had to be rebooked on a later flight. No injuries have been reported.
Earlier on January 13, at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, two passenger planes also nearly collided.
According to a preliminary analysis by the FAA, the Delta plane stopped about 300 meters away from where the American Airlines plane had been.
Ultimately, the Delta Air Lines plane canceled takeoff and returned to the gate.
Currently, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the FAA are investigating this.
On the morning of January 18, a JetBlue Airways plane collided with another plane at an airport in New York. Fortunately, no one was injured in the accident.
According to US media, there have been frequent airport accidents in the United States recently.
According to FAA data, in 2022 there will be 1,732 "runway incursions" similar to New York's JFK International Airport across the United States.