‘The aircraft shook’: Asphalt Plan Collision in Seattle

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The pilot told passengers, including a BC woman, that another plane had hit their tail on their plane.

A BC woman was sitting inside a plane on the tarmac in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as another aircraft collided into it.

Jackie Patton left Vancouver International Airport on a flight to Puerto Vallarta with a Layover in Seattle on the morning of February 5th.

The northern Vancouver resident sat in his seat at Delta Air Line’s flight 1921 in Seattle when she saw a plane moving nearby.

“I saw the plane coming up behind us from my window seat, looked like it was very close,” she said. “A few seconds later there was a very high noise and the plane was shaking. It was obvious right away there was something wrong. “

At. At 10:07, she took off her phone to record the plane with the logo of jeal (Japan Airlines), perpendicular to the one she was on.

The right wing of Japan Airlines Flight 68 hit the tail of Delta Air Line’s Flight 1921 while the planes were a taxi.

“I didn’t see the actual hit itself, but the shaking and high noise that came out of nowhere was scary,” she remembered.

Patton grabbed the armrest and said it was a hard shake that lasted a few seconds.

“With all flight events recently, I was a little nervous about flying anyway, and then this happens. Everyone had a shocked reaction. No one knew what had happened,” she said.

The pilot told the passengers that another plane hit their tail on their plane.

Patton and passengers were inside the plane at. 11, and the staff could be seen outside of taking photographs of the aircraft.

A spokesperson at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport said the port of Seattle Fire Department, Police and Airport Operation staff responded at 1 p.m. 10:17 on “On the ramp at sea on a taxi between S Concourse and South Airport Maintenance Hangars.”

“The incident involved a taxi aircraft aircraft that appears to have hit the tail of a parked Delta air line aircraft,” Kassie McKnight-Xi said, adding that no one was injured in the incident.

“The airport cooperates with both airlines to safely deplet passengers and bring them to the terminal,” she said. “There is minimal impact on airport operations when this happened on a taxi railway.”

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has confirmed that it is investigating the crash.

“The aircraft was in an area that is not under air traffic management,” said specialist in public affairs Jillian L. Angeline. “GET Temporarily paused some flights to the airport as a result of the incident. “

People on the plane are asked to check with their airlines if they fly Wednesday.