A Boeing 777 has clipped the tail of another plane at Toronto airport
A Boeing 777 has clipped the tail of another plane at Toronto airport.
The Air Canada jet, which was being towed at the time, banged the tail of the Airbus A321 aircraft belonging to the same carrier.
Video footage shows the 777’s left-hand wing hitting the parked narrow-body jet with enough force to spin the Airbus aircraft around.
It’s understood that both aircraft were unoccupied at the time of the incident.
Toronto Pearson International Airport is the Canadian flag carrier’s largest hub. It handles around 50 million passengers a year and is the second-busiest airport in North America after New York JFK.
An Air Canada spokesperson told The Independent: “The incident occurred during the towing of a Boeing 777 at Toronto-Pearson on December 27, when the aircraft came into contact with a parked Airbus A321 stationed on the tarmac, away from the terminal.
“Both aircraft were empty at the time and there were no injuries. We are investigating the incident. The Boeing 777 has since returned to service and the A321 is being repaired.”
It’s not the first time two aircraft have collided.
In July, two planes collided at Amsterdam Schiphol airport when an easyJet aircraft crashed into a KLM plane during pushback.
Both aircraft were damaged due to the contact.
One passenger onboard the easyJet flight, from Amsterdam to London Gatwick, said the plane’s wing was “lodged” into the KLM aircraft’s tail.
In April, two planes collided during foggy weather at East Midlands airport.
A Ryanair plane clipped a stationary Jet2 aircraft when it was taxiing to the stand at the Derbyshire airport.
No passengers were onboard either aircraft at the time of the incident and no-one was injured.