A Delta Air Lines plane collided with an Air Canada plane Tuesday morning while taxiing on a taxiway at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said.
No injuries to crew or passengers were reported.
Delta Air Lines Flight 7 was taxiing for departure around 10:30 a.m. when its left wing struck the horizontal stabilizer of Air Canada Flight 785, according to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The Air Canada flight was being towed to its gate when the other plane made contact with its tail, an Air Canada spokesperson told NBC4. The FAA is investigating the incident.
A Delta spokesperson confirmed that the Delta flight was en route to Haneda, Japan, at the time of the collision. The plane had 275 customers and 15 crew members on board.
“While taxiing at Los Angeles International Airport, a Delta aircraft came into contact with an Air Canada aircraft,” the Delta statement said. “Nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and our people, and we apologize to our customers for the experience and delay in their travels.”
Jayson Lowe, chief executive of Ascendant Financial Inc., was on another flight at LAX when he witnessed the collision.
“I was looking out the window as we taxied to our arrival gate and a Delta A350 managed to hit a parked Air Canada plane. A parked plane. I can’t stress this enough,” Lowe wrote in a social media post.
He wrote that “someone in that Delta cockpit lost spatial awareness in the vicinity of an object roughly the size of a condo building with wings.”
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