A Delta Air Lines plane collided with an Air Canada jet at Los Angeles International Airport Tuesday morning.

Delta Air Lines Flight 7 was taxiing for departure when its left wingtip made contact with Air Canada Flight 875.

“The Air Canada flight was being towed when it stopped short of its gate. The FAA is investigating the event that occurred around 10:30 a.m. local time on Tuesday, Oct. 6. Contact the airlines for more information,” the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stated.

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Jayson Lowe, CEO of Ascendant Financial Inc., was onboard a different flight that had just landed at LAX when the collision happened.

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“I was looking out the window as we were taxiing to our arrival gate and a Delta A350 managed to hit a parked Air Canada plane. A parked plane. I cannot stress this enough,” Lowe wrote in a social media post.

He added that “somebody in that Delta cockpit lost spatial awareness near an object roughly the size of a condominium building with wings.”

LAX traffic is experiencing gate hold and taxi delays of 15 minutes or less, while arrival traffic is experiencing airborne delays of 15 minutes or less. It remains unclear whether these delays are directly caused by the collision.

According to FlightAware, a total of 26 flights originating from the LAX airport were delayed as of 1 p.m. Tuesday while 2 were cancelled.

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TMZ noted:

The Los Angeles Fire Department tells TMZ … its role at LAX was limited to responding to the incident, and firefighters did not take any fire suppression action.

Air Canada spokesperson Sean Davidson tells TMZ … the plane had arrived from Toronto and will be taken out of service for inspection and repairs. No injuries have been reported.

 

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