A wing on one of the largest commercial airliners of the clipped world smallest tail of a small regional carrier, while taxing at the airport, John f. Kennedy in New York Monday night, lifting and the aircraft spinning a full 90 degreesofficials said.
Video of the incident showed a much smaller Air France A380 aft of a regional plan passage. Wing left the jet jumbo clipped tail of smaller connecting Delta Comair, transforming the plane counterclockwise.
The incident was three seconds. There was no injuries.
The Federal Aviation Administration told ABC News, regional tail was suspended above the traffic lane when it was truncated to 8 h 08.
Air France jet bound for Paris was tax from the terminal to the runway for take-off. The connection of Delta Comair had just to reach Boston with 66 passengers and crew on board. There were 495 passengers and 25 crew members on board flight Air France.
The smallest aircraft headed for the door. Passengers on Delta aircraft scrambled down the stairs to the jet.
"The aircraft shaked very, very violently and the next thing we knew that we have learned to squeeze out the plane," passenger Sebastian Pinel said. "" "". It is only when we came out that we realized what had happened that the tail of our plane was hit by another plane. ?
The incident took place in radio transmissions between pilots and air traffic controllers.
"Roll trucks of emergency", the pilot of the Comair flight by radio. "we were struck by - that - Air France.".
Of the Airbus A380 has been flying for more than three years. The double-decker plane has a wingspan of 260 feet; so great that some airports can accommodate it.
John Nance, aviation expert and contributor to ABC News, said that this kind of accident would be impossible.
"In any busy airport, one of the main concerns is that no large aircraft as a 747 or Airbus 380 must remain separate from each another aircraft," said Nance. "So if there is a problem in New York probably defeat else problems there and we need to look at this new."
The accident comes on the heels of several incidents of high level on the aircraft and airports.
Last month, the roof of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 torn a leverage open, which prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to 80 jets of soil if model for fear that the accident may happen again.
In addition, air traffic controllers have come under fire to sleeping on the job. Accidental NAP of a controller on 23 March at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. forced two pilots to land their jets without the aid of the tower.
In a written statement, Air France said that the incident has caused material damage for both devices, which have been based.
Passengers were provided accommodation at the hotel or transferred on the flights of other airlines Air France or partner, in accordance with the Declaration. An investigation by the NTSB is underway.
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