The wingtips of two Japan Airlines, JAL, passenger planes crashed into each other at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Thursday morning, according to local media reported.
According to JAL, the incident occurred at around 7:30 a.m. local time. Both aircraft sustained damaged, but fortunately, no injuries were sustained, according to a public broadcaster, NHK.
JAL Flight 503 which was bound for Hokkaido’s New Chitose Airport, was backing out of its parking spot when it struck a plane moving forward into an adjacent parking spot close-by.
About 328 people had been on board Flight 503, which was cancelled, while the other aircraft had no passenger and its flight has been postponed to change planes, the report added.
This incident is the latest in a series of recent airfield collisions that have been reported, so far this year.
A JAL passenger jet collided with a Japan Coast Guard plane at Haneda Airport on January 2, killing five out of the six crew members on the Coast Guard plane.
Additionally, a Korean Air aircraft clipped a parked Cathay Pacific aircraft at New Chitose Airport on January 16, and two All Nippon Airways passenger jets bumped wings at an Osaka airport on February 1.
