A United Airlines Boeing 777 Jet cut the wing tip of another united aircraft while this Tuesday morning pushed back from the gate on San Francisco International Airport, which gave rise to the cancellation of two Trans-Pacific flights that more than 500 passengers had carried between them, said civil servants.
No one was injured during the accident, the last incident to supervise commercial safety procedures for aviation in the United States.
The brush between the two aircraft took place around 12:35 pm, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which said the aircraft maneuvered in an area where air traffic controllers do not communicate with cockpit bodies.
Because one of the Boeing 777s left the gate to fly to Sydney, Australia, his right wing tip cut the left wing of a flight leaving for Hong Kong, the FAA said in a statement. A video that seemed to have been taken from one of the airport terminals showed employees who were on a hydraulic lift that inspected the point in which the two wings were cut.
A spokesperson for the airport referred questions about the incident to United Airlines.
There were 202 people and 16 crew members on the flight to Sydney, while the plane to Hong Kong 306 passengers and 16 crew members had it, according to the airline. United did not say what kind of damage the aircraft had suffered or what had led to the accident.
United said it worked to rebook the passengers on other flights.
The accident happened in a time of increased fear of commercial aviation in the United States, after other accidents, disruptions and escape path problems and a week after air traffic controllers Short lost communication with aircraft On Newark Liberty International Airport, their trade union said. The demolition of communication at Newark led to hundreds of delays and cancellations, in addition to dozens of flight densities. United said last week that it was cut off its daily flight schedule At Newark, with reference to a shortage of air traffic controllers.
Last month, two American Airlines Jets, including one who wear at least six congress members of New York and New Jersey, Wings cut on a taxi load on Ronald Reagan National Airport Outside Washington.
No one was injured in that incident, but it brought a new check on safety at the airport, where a regional jet of American Airlines who made his last approach was hit by an army helicopter on January 29, All 67 people on board the two planes kill. That crash was the deadliest in the United States in 20 years.
On Thursday, air traffic controllers instructed two commercial flights to break down their landings on Reagan Airport because a helicopter from the US Army prepared to land near the Pentagon, said the FAA, who added that the investigation was.
Shortly after those demolished flights, the army said that the training flights around the Pentagon suspended, Reuters reported.
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