Two planes collided on a snow-covered runway at a Japanese airport on Tuesday, the country’s second plane crash in as many weeks after a passenger jet was cut short and caught fire on the runway.
A Korean Air Lines flight clipped the wing of a Cathay Pacific Airways plane parked at New Chitose Airport on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido amid wintry weather, a Korean Air official said.
No injuries were reported on either plane, and no fire or fuel leaks were detected, a fire department spokesman told local media.
Korean Air Flight 766 was bound for Seoul, South Korea, carrying 289 passengers and crew at the time of the incident, which occurred as the plane was preparing to take off, an airline official said.
Japanese media have conflicting information about whether passengers were on the Cathay Pacific plane, but the Kyodo News agency reported that it was empty.
A Korean Air Lines flight clipped the wing of a Cathay Pacific Airways plane at New Chitose Airport on the Japanese island of Hokkaido on Tuesday. X/@IFENG__official The Korean Air flight was being pushed towards the runway when the towing vehicle skidded on the snow. X/@IFENG__official
The collision happened at around 5:30pm local time, when a tow truck that was pushing the Korean Air plane back towards the runway before take-off skidded on snow, causing the left wing of the jet to hit the right tail wing of the Cathay Pacific, Korean Air plane. said the officer.
There was no immediate information on the extent of the damage to the plane, or what exactly caused the taxiing jet to clip the parked plane.
The incident comes two weeks after the deadly crash at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, where Japan Airlines Flight 516 carrying 379 people burst into flames after colliding with a coast guard plane.
The collision comes just two weeks after a fiery crash at Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport involving a commercial jet and a coast guard plane. REUTERS Five people were killed when the Japan Airlines flight crashed into the smaller military plane. via REUTERS Officials investigate a Japanese Coast Guard plane that caught fire after colliding with a Japan Airlines (JAL) Airbus A350 at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, REUTERS
Dramatic footage shows terrified passengers, among them children, fleeing the burning plane after the crash, which killed five of the six crew on board the smaller military earthquake relief plane.
The Tokyo airport collision is still under investigation by transport authorities, who are looking at communications between air traffic controllers and the two planes.
More than 80 domestic and international flights departing and arriving at New Chitose Airport were canceled due to bad weather on Tuesday, an airport spokesman said.
With Postal wire
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