Two Delta Air Lines planes collided on the runway while taxing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Tuesday morning.

The incident reportedly occurred around 10:07 a.m.

“An Airbus A350, flight DL295 to Tokyo, clipped the tail of a regional jet, DL5526 to Louisiana, causing damage to both planes,” FOX 5 Atlanta reports.

FOX 5 Atlanta reports:

FOX 5 Atlanta has received messages and photographs from people who claim to have been passengers on the aircraft involved.

A meteorologist with WFTS, an ABC affiliate in Tampa Bay, Florida, says he was a passenger with a crew from the TV station on one of the planes headed from Atlanta to Louisiana. According to the meteorologist, the back of his plane was clipped by another plane as they were taxiing out to the runway.

According to Delta Air Lines, the wing of an Airbus A350 taxiing out as DL295 from Atlanta to Tokyo-Haneda made contact with the tail of an Endeavor Air CRJ-900, DL5526 to Lafayette, Louisiana, on an adjacent taxiway, resulting in damage to the tail of the regional jet and the wing of the A350.

There have been no reported injuries at this time and customers are being transported back to the terminal where they will be reaccommodated on alternate flights.

Delta Air Lines is working with the NTSB and other authorities to investigate the incident.

Per ABC News:

“There is minimal impact to airport operations,” an airport spokesperson said in a statement.

“Passengers from one of the aircraft are being bussed from the incident to the concourses,” the spokesperson said. “The second aircraft taxied under its own power to a concourse where passengers will deplane at their gate.”

 

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