A cargo plane and a commercial plane collided Saturday evening at Miami International Airport, officials said.
A UPS Boeing 767 and a Copa Airlines Boeing 737 may have collided at the airport, Miami-Dade firefighters said.
“Around 9:15 p.m., an arriving aircraft and a departing aircraft came into contact at the intersection of two taxiways. No injuries were reported and flights are being diverted to other taxiways, so there is no impact to airport operations at this time,” Greg Chin, MIA communications director, said in a statement to CBS News Miami.
Chin said two patients were treated on scene by Miami-Dade firefighters for minor injuries and did not require medical transport.
UPS Flight 358 was scheduled to fly from Miami to Bogota, Colombia, and Copa Airlines Flight 427 was arriving from Panama City, Panama. Copa Airlines is headquartered in Panama City.
The collision comes as MIA continues to experience delays and cancellations following Friday’s rare nationwide ground stop by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned late Friday that flight operations would take time to return to normal as airlines worked to reposition planes and crews.
FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said Saturday that the U.S. air travel schedule should return to normal by the end of Sunday.
Federal officials said the outage was linked to problems with aging air traffic control technologyincluding switches and routers that were overloaded with data, creating inconsistencies in radar and communications systems.
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