The wingtips of two Japan Airlines (JAL) passenger planes collided at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Thursday morning, according to local media reports. The incident occurred at approximately 7:30 a.m. local time.
Japan Airlines confirmed that both aircraft sustained damage, but no injuries were reported, as stated by public broadcaster NHK.
The collision involved JAL Flight 503, which was bound for Hokkaido’s New Chitose Airport. The plane was backing out of its parking spot when it struck another plane moving forward into an adjacent parking spot. Flight 503, which had 328 people on board, was subsequently cancelled. The other aircraft, which had no passengers at the time, experienced a flight delay to allow for a change of planes.
This incident is the latest in a series of recent airfield collisions in Japan. On January 2, a JAL passenger jet collided with a Japan Coast Guard plane at Haneda Airport, resulting in the deaths of five of the six crew members on the Coast Guard plane. On January 16, a Korean Air aircraft clipped a parked Cathay Pacific aircraft at New Chitose Airport, and on February 1, two All Nippon Airways passenger jets bumped wings at an Osaka airport.
