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The JetBlue flight crashes into an empty plane parked at JFK while leaving the terminal, five days after a takeoff between AA and Delta that would have cost hundreds of lives.
- On Wednesday morning, a JetBlue plane collided with another plane at JFK
- The JetBlue flight was in reverse and preparing to start taxiing on the runway
- After the incident, the plane returned to the boarding gate and the passengers disembarked
- No injuries reported
- Just a few days earlier, a near-fatal runway collision was narrowly avoided at JFK.
In another close call at JFK, a Puerto Rico-bound JetBlue flight crashed into an empty plane on the tarmac at the New York airport early Wednesday morning.
The incident comes just days after nearly hundreds of lives were lost at the airport when a Delta Boeing 737 and an American Airlines Boeing 777 narrowly avoided colliding during the Delta plane’s takeoff.
That incident remains under investigation by numerous federal agencies.
According to a passenger aboard the JetBlue flight during Wednesday’s incident, a truck was pushing the plane away from the gate and preparing to taxi before takeoff.
During the pushback, the AirBus A320 collided with another parked JetBlue AirBus A320.
Following the incident, the plane returned to the departure gate and no injuries were reported.
Passengers return to the terminal after a JetBlue flight crashed into another plane on the runway
No injuries were reported from the crash
In a statement, a JetBlue spokesperson said the San Juan-bound flight “came into light contact with a parked unoccupied aircraft during pushback.”
The incident is being investigated by the FAA.
The near miss on January 2 was avoided thanks to a sophisticated ground-based radar system: the Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X. The system collects data from sensors to warn the tower of possible collisions.
Last week, the Allied Pilots Association, which represents 15,000 American Airlines pilots, raised concerns about new cabin protocols imposed by the airline without proper training. These procedures may become part of the FAA and TSA investigation into the incident.
The new controls have been in place since Tuesday, January 11. The procedures deal with cockpit communications during critical events like low-visibility landings, according to the union.
“The operational changes that management is attempting to implement without extensive training alter the way pilots communicate, coordinate and execute flight safety tasks at some of the highest threat times of flight,” the Pilots Association said. Aliados (APA) in a publication last Monday. .