The Japan Airlines plane collided with a Delta Air Lines plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Wednesday morning. The incident is the latest in multiple air travel accidents over the past two weeks.
At about 10:17am on Wednesday, Japan Airlines Flight 68 was taxing at Seacak Airport when the plane's right wing hit the tail of a parked Delta Air Lines plane.
“It was clear right away something was wrong.”
Japan Airlines Flight 68 had just landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport after flying from Tokyo, Japan. FlightAware – Flight tracking website.
Delta Flight 1921 was preparing to break free before taking off for Puerto Varalta, Mexico.
Delta's Boeing 737 had 142 passengers on board when the plane was struck.
video It captured the moment when a Japan Airlines plane hit a Delta passenger plane.
Jackie Patton, a native of Vancouver, Canada, was sitting in the window of a Delta plane at the time of the incident.
Patton said New York Times She heard “the violent shaking and the sounds of really loud crunches on the plane.”
“It was clear right away something was wrong,” Patton added. “It was very scary.”
Posted by Patton video X In the aftermath of the social media platform, it showed that the wings of Japan Airlines planes are sliced into the tails of other aircraft.
Police and firefighters responded to the conflict.
Both airliners had to be evacuated after the incident.
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is statement What the conflict caused.”The impact on airport operations is not minimal, but there was a delay in flight after the FAA suspended traffic at the airport.
Delta said there were no reports of injuries to passengers or crew members of the plane.
The Federal Aviation Administration statement“The aircraft were located in an area not under air traffic control.”
The FAA has begun investigating the collision.
Japan Airlines did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Times.
You can view local news reports on air travel incidents from wtvt.
Air traffic safety has been the hot button topic in the past few weeks after a very publicly published plane crash.
Last week, an American Eagle Flight collided with a Black Hawk military helicopter. All 62 passengers, two crew members of the plane, and three crew members of the Black Hawk helicopter were killed in crashing. All the victims' bodies have been recovered.
As reported previously by Blaze News, a small medical plane crashed into a northeastern Philadelphia neighborhood two days after the passenger plane collided with the helicopter. All six passengers and ground passengers of Learjet 55 died in the air travel disaster.
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