{"id":26098,"date":"2022-09-29T06:18:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T06:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=26098"},"modified":"2022-09-29T06:18:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T06:18:37","slug":"two-planes-collide-at-heathrow-airport-while-taxiing-on-runway-and-scrape-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/09\/29\/two-planes-collide-at-heathrow-airport-while-taxiing-on-runway-and-scrape-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Two planes collide at Heathrow Airport while taxiing on runway and scrape wings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two commercial passenger planes have been involved in a minor collision at Heathrow Airport, with the wing tip of one reportedly &#8220;scraping&#8221; into the other while taxiing on the runway. The incident took place at around 8pm this evening. The collision involved Korean Air and Iceland Air planes. Twitter user &#8220;Martyn John Wulfran&#8221; (@thewulfran) wrote: &#8220;Major incident at Heathrow Airport involving 2 aircraft.&#8221; &#8220;Richard&#8221; (@TaylorGRichard) replied: &#8220;Any details? I think I&#8217;m on one of aircraft. Pretty sure we scrapped another plane with our wing tip while taxiing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We have been told that we are going back to the gate due to a technical issue. But that was 15 minutes ago and we haven&#8217;t moved.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a separate tweet to Express.co.uk, he said: &#8220;The flight I am on is ke908 to Seoul. I think we grazed another planes tail with our wing while taxiing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twitter user &#8220;M Zulqarnain B&#8221; (@MZulqarnainBut1), who describes themselves as an aviation data analyst, wrote: &#8220;JUST IN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Two aircrafts have been hit at London Heathrow A Korean 777 clipped a Icelandair 767.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/09\/image-1-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/09\/image-1-11.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/09\/image-1-11-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another Twitter user said several emergency vehicles had arrived next to the Korean Air plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;DWE&#8221; (@dwedigital) commented: &#8220;A LOT of emergency vehicles next to a @KoreanAir_KE aircraft off the side of the runway.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A passenger on the Korean Air flight told the Daily Star: &#8220;I was watching out the window thinking we were awful close to the tail for a parked plane. And then it looked like we grazed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The captain hasn&#8217;t really told us much except we are going back to the gate due to a technical issue. But the last communication was about 45 minutes ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN<br><br>Two aircrafts have been hit at London Heathrow<br><br>A Korean 777 clipped a Icelandair 767<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/aviation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#aviation<\/a><\/p>&mdash; M Zulqarnain B (@MZulqarnainBut1) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MZulqarnainBut1\/status\/1575212481613803520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two commercial passenger planes have been involved in a minor collision at Heathrow Airport, with the wing tip of one reportedly &#8220;scraping&#8221; into the other while taxiing on the runway. The incident took place at around 8pm this evening. The collision involved Korean Air and Iceland Air planes. Twitter user &#8220;Martyn John Wulfran&#8221; (@thewulfran) wrote: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11363,5754,10870,11995,9787,7396,11355,6372,8103,8102,3684,8621,4995,11973,6830,8370,5350,12605,6348,594],"class_list":["post-26098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-aircraft","tag-airport","tag-aviation","tag-collide","tag-collision","tag-data","tag-flight","tag-heathrow","tag-icelandair-767","tag-koreanair-777","tag-london","tag-london-heathrow","tag-minor","tag-one","tag-plane","tag-seoul","tag-twitter","tag-uk","tag-us","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}