A plane from the Japan airlines ran into the tail of a Delta airlines Flight on the floor on Wednesday at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Delta spokeswoman Samantha Moore Fetteau, told CBS News in a state Wing “of the Japan Airlines plane in approximately 10: 17 am Pacific.
The Sea-Tac airport said in its own statement that the Japan Airlines plane was qualifying while the delta flight was parked when the impact occurred.
There were 142 passengers aboard the flight of Delta Air Lines 1921 at that time, Fteteau said. It is not clear how many people were aboard flight 68 of Japan Airlines, but airport officials said no injuries were reported on any of the flights. The passengers were deplarated from both.
According to FlightAware, the Japan Airlines plane had just arrived in Seattle from Tokyo.
Because the airplanes were close to the lobby, they were not in an area that is under air traffic control, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which is investigating the incident.
The FAA temporarily stopped some flights, but the Sea-Tac airport said there was a minimum impact.
In the midst of the growing concerns about Aviation Security In recent years, the agency said He won almost $ 12 billion in subsidy funds available for airports throughout the country from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
More than $ 178 million have been assigned to the Sea-Tac airport, according to FAA data, of which $ 31.5 million have been approved by Congress to improve the airport terminals.
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