A newly released video shows the moment a passenger plane bumped into a gated aircraft at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in May.
The video, released by the Ohio airport and obtained by FOX 8, shows a Delta Airlines jet slowly moving toward a gate to drop off passengers after landing when it tries to squeeze past the parked Spirit Airlines plane.
As the Delta plane attempts to reach the terminal, the aircraft clips the gated Spirit jet.
Fortunately, no one was hurt in the incident.
However, Delta Airlines confirmed that their plane took damage to its wingtip.
“Aircraft are not designed to bump into each other like that,” commercial pilot and flight instructor Robert Katz told the outlet.
Katz believes the video of the incident should prompt a more thorough inspection of the planes involved.
“Examine all the component parts that could have been impacted, directly, and also indirectly. Their function, their reliability, their performance can all be compromised,” the commercial pilot told the outlet.
“Everything on an airplane serves a purpose.”
Despite the accident happening in May, the incident is still under review by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), according to FOX 8.
The Post reached out to the FAA for comment.
The incident at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport highlighted many similar incidents that have occurred around the US since the beginning of 2024.
In February, two JetBlue planes collided on the tarmac at Boston’s Logan International Airport, disrupting the passengers’ travel plans onboard.
One passenger, Dave Souter, was headed to Las Vegas to work at a Super Bowl event. He said the incident happened after the aircraft pulled from the gate.
In April, a Swiss Air jet nearly crashed into four other planes at JFK Airport after a communications error put them on the runway at the same time.
The Zurich-bound Swiss Air flight had been cleared for takeoff on April 17 and began rushing down the runway but hit the brakes after noticing that air traffic control cleared the path for four other planes.
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The Federal Aviation Administration is still investigating the incident.
The near-collision at JFK occurred just a day before two packed passenger planes almost crashed at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport just outside Washington, DC.
The FAA reported that two planes at the Virginia airport had been cleared for takeoff on the same runway at the same time.
The air traffic controllers took about 30 seconds to realize the mistake.
They desperately called on the JetBlue and Southwest Airlines planes to stop before they collided.
