A Japan Airlines plane taxiing across the tarmac at Seattle-Tacoma Airport Wednesday morning struck a parked Delta Airlines plane — leaving the planes damaged but nobody hurt, according to reports.
The accident happened at 10:17 a.m., the airport announced on X, with the taxiing plane’s wing striking the tail of the parked Delta plane as it passed.
Photos from the tarmac posted by travelers on social media showed the Japan Airlines wing sliced halfway through the Delta plane’s tail.
No injuries were reported in the crash. X/jacqpatton
“So, we were sitting on the tarmac at SeaTac and another plane ran into us, just casually sliced into our tail. Very scary,” one passenger wrote on social media.
“Loud. It was scary. Getting inspected now,” they added.
The airport said the incident had “minimal impact” on airport operations.
“There are no injuries reported at this time. SEA is working with both airlines to safely deplane passengers and bring them to the terminal,” the airport said.
The close call comes as tensions remain high at airports across the country following a pair of terrifying accidents.
The wing of a Japan Airlines plane struck the tail of a Delta Jet. X/jacqpatton
Just a week ago, 67 people were killed when a US Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines jet as it landed at Reagan National Airport.
And two days later in Philadelphia, an ambulance jet carrying six people plummeted onto a busy street and exploded — killing all the people on the plane and one person on the ground.
Then over the weekend, fear was further sown after the Federal Aviation Administration’s Notice to Air Missions system (NOTAM) – which provides vital information about hazards threatening aircraft and airports – went down on Saturday night.
It was brought back online Sunday, but not before hundreds of flights were delayed by the outage.