A Delta Air Lines plane struck the tail of another plane at Atlanta airport on Tuesday morning.
The collision occurred shortly after 10 a.m. at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport as Delta Flight 295 was taxiing for takeoff and collided with Endeavor Air Flight 5526, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement.
A video taken at the airport appears to show the Endeavour aircraft with its tail extending beyond the side of the aircraft.
There are no reports of injuries and maintenance crews are investigating the damage, Delta Air Lines said.
The Delta flight was bound for Tokyo and the Endeavor Air flight was bound for Lafayette, Louisiana. Delta said it was working to rebook both flights.
The incident occurred months after two near-collisions at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
In April, a JetBlue aircraft preparing to take off nearly collided with a Southwest Airlines flight that had been cleared by air traffic control to cross the runway.
According to the website LiveATC, shortly before the collision, someone was heard on the radio shouting for both planes to stop. A source familiar with the matter told NBC News at the time that the planes came within 300 meters of each other.
The JetBlue plane had to abort takeoff, the airline said.
A month later, another incident occurred at the airport: an American Airlines flight was cleared to take off while another aircraft had already been instructed to land on a cross runway.
An air traffic controller revoked American’s takeoff clearance “because another aircraft had been cleared to land on an intersecting runway,” said a statement from the FAA, which had launched an investigation into the incident.
Last year, the FAA addressed these concerns at a safety summit to assess whether changes need to be made to how American flights are regulated. The agency said it has a “goal of zero serious near misses” and recently reported a 33% decrease in serious runway accidents in fiscal year 2024 compared to 2023.
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