Japan Airlines Plane Clips Delta Plane in Seattle-Tacoma Airport

A Japan Airlines aircraft cut a parked delta air line plan under Taxi in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Wednesday, causing the wing of the Japanese aircraft to impaled on the tail of Delta Jet.

Delta said that Boeing 737 affected had 142 passengers on board. The aircraft, which served as Flight 1921, was scheduled to fly to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and was in line to cut when it was hit, Delta said.

“There are no reports of injuries to crew or customers on the plane, and we apologize for the experience and delay in travel,” Delta said. Japan Airlines did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the Japan Airlines plane was Flight 68, which had landed at the airport after flying for more than eight hours from Tokyo. The planes were in an area that is not under air traffic control, FAA said, adding that it had paused some flights at the airport after the episode and examined.

Police and firefighters responded at 1 p.m. 10:17 and worked with both airlines to get passengers from the planes into the terminal, the airport said in a statement. It confirmed that there had been no reports of injuries and said that the impact on airport operations was “minimal.”

Jackie Patton, a Vancouver resident, sat in a window seat on the Delta plane, on the way to meeting her parents for a holiday in Puerto Vallarta when the collision happened. She described “violently shaking in the plane and a really loud crushing sound.”

“It was clear right away that something was wrong,” Ms. Patton in an interview. The pilot later confirmed that the plane had been hit, Ms. Patton.

“It was very scary,” she said.

A video Posted by Ms. Patton on social media shows that people react with amazement when they see the wing of the Japan Airlines plane after it was cut in the tail of the Delta Jet.

The security of the airline’s travels in the United States has been under intense control since an American Airlines jet and a US army helicopter collided in Midair and crashed into the Potomac River in Washington last week, killing 67 people.

On Friday night, a small medical aircraft, carrying six people, crashed near a shopping center in northeastern Philadelphia, killing everything on board and a person on the ground, the authorities said.

And on Sunday, a United Airlines flight from Houston to New York was evacuated due to flames coming from a engine showed video.

Ms. Patton said she was already a “nervous fly” and had been particularly concerned about flying since the collision over Potomac.

While this incident was not near so devastating, she said, “It was still very shocking and to be honest, surprising that these aircraft could get so close together.”