"Jets clip each other on Boston airport taxiway"

Monday, April 9, 2001

Jets clip each other on Boston airport taxiway
The Associated Press


BOSTON - Two airplanes about to takeoff from Logan Airport clipped each
other on a taxiway Monday morning, slightly damaging each plane.

No one on either plane was injured, said Phil Orlandella, spokesman for
Massport, which runs the airport.

The two planes involved were an American Airlines 767 jet bound for Orlando,
Fla., and a 737 Delta Shuttle bound for New York.

Passenger Michael Mokrzycki, a systems editor for The Associated Press, said
the Delta plane was waiting to take off when it was hit. He first thought
the plane was shaken by a gust of wind.

"We were sitting there and there was this crashing sound, and the plane
shuddered left and right, and then it was over," he said.

"The captain got on the horn and said, 'We had a little fender-bender.'"

The tip of the right wing was sheared off on the American plane, Mokrzycki
said.

Orlandella said the Delta plane had pulled over on a taxiway to allow the
American plane behind it to pass. The American plane's right wing clipped
the Delta plane's left horizontal stabilizer.

Both planes returned to their terminals to have the damage assessed.

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