CHICAGO, IL — A United Airlines plane headed to its arrival gate collided with another United aircraft at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Friday, according to officials.
A spokesperson for United said flight 2652 had arrived at the airport from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, when it clipped the horizontal stabilizer on the other plane. The horizontal stabilizer is located at the tail of the plane.
The second plane was not moving when it was struck, and no passengers were on board.
United said 113 customers and five crew members were on flight 2652. No injuries were reported, and all passengers left the plane normally after a brief delay.
Bill Marcus, a passenger on the flight from Wyoming, said he didn’t realize anything had happened until the pilot said there would be a delay to document something and passengers on the plane saw several people gather around the right wing.
“I was shocked that I didn’t feel something more, although when they separated the planes there was some shuddering,” Marcus told CBS News Chicago. It took about 40 extra minutes for the plane to get to the gate, he said.
Earlier this month, two Delta Air Lines regional jets collided at the intersection of taxiways at LaGuardia Airport in New York, injuring a flight attendant.
Runway collisions like these could add to worries about aviation safety in the wake of recent crashes and near misses, including the deadliest plane crash in the United States in decades, when an Army helicopter collided with an airliner preparing to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in January.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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