Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials announced that a Delta Airbus A350’s wingtip “struck the tail” of an Endeavor Bombardier CRJ900 jet as the two airplanes collided at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Tuesday.
In a statement released after the incident, the FAA said, “While Delta Air Lines Flight 295 was taxiing for departure at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, its wingtip struck the tail of Endeavor Air Flight 5526.”
According to the FAA, the Delta Airbus was initially heading to Tokyo, while the Endeavor Bombardier was heading to Lafayette, Louisiana. The agency noted that it would be investigating the incident, which took place at the intersection of “two taxiways” at roughly 10:10 a.m. (local time) on Tuesday.
In a statement on its website, Delta confirmed, “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.”
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Delta noted that 221 customers were on the Airbus and 56 customers were on the Endeavor Bombardier at the time of the incident and that no injuries had been reported. The airline also issued another statement, explaining that the company had “worked with each customer… to provide accommodation on alternate aircraft scheduled to depart Tuesday afternoon.”
After issuing an apology to the company’s customers, Delta announced that it was “cooperating with the NTSB and other authorities while Delta TechOps teams prepare to safely move both aircraft to maintenance hangars.”
A picture shared by Jason Adams, a meteorologist for WFTS, shows one of the planes, which appears to have had its vertical stabilizer broken off as a result of Tuesday’s collision.
“Well that was terrifying. Taxiing out for the flight from Atlanta to Louisiana and another plane appears to have clipped the back of our plane,” Adams wrote alongside the photo. “Very jarring, metal scraping sounds then loud bangs. We’re fine. No fire or smoke.”
A video shared on X, formerly Twitter, also shows the damage caused by Tuesday’s collision between the two airplanes in Atlanta.
