A Japan Airlines plane taxiing across the tarmac at Seattle-Tacoma Airport Wednesday morning, Feb. 5, struck a parked Delta Airlines plane.
Though the planes were damaged, nobody was 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.
“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.
The collision comes as tensions remain high at airports across the country following a pair of terrifying accidents.
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.
Watch the video below.
🚨#BREAKING: A Japan Airlines jet has collided with parked Delta jet at Seattle Tacoma International Airport ⁰⁰📌#Seattle | #Washington
Watch as footage captures the moment a Japan Airlines jet collides with a parked Delta Air Lines aircraft at Seattle-Tacoma International… pic.twitter.com/qaoak9oT34
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) February 5, 2025
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