In an audio recording of the live air traffic control, a pilot from Delta 295 is heard asking: “We just hit something on the taxiway. Could you tell us what it was?”.
“The whole tail of that CRJ [Endeavour Air’s Bombardier CRJ 900] is off,” a man from an unknown station is heard responding moments later.
In a statement, Delta Air Lines said: “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.”
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has claimed the title of the world’s busiest airport every year since 1998, handling more than 100 million passengers annually.
Last month in New Zealand, a plane collided with a parked aircraft at Waihī Beach airfield.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), an aircraft lost control taking off and crashed into a parked, unattended plane on August 14.
“At the peak of the incident, four fire trucks and one support vehicle from Mayor View and Waihī fire brigades attended the scene,” said Fire and Emergency NZ northern shift manager Michael Anderson.
The CAA confirmed that nobody was injured.
