A cargo jet collided with a commercial airliner while taxiing on the runway at Miami International Airport Saturday night, leaving two people with minor injuries, according to reports.
The pilot of a Copa Airlines flight arriving from Panama City declared on flight radio “somebody hit us”, moments after its wing clipped the nose of a Bogota, Colombia, bound UPS Flight 358 at the intersection of two taxiways around 9:15 p.m.
“UPS 358, did you hit that aircraft?” the controller asked the pilot of the cargo plane, according to audio from ATC.
The pilot fessed up, saying “Yeah we went too far and he clipped us with his wing.”
Greg Chin, communications director for Miami International Airport, told The Post that “Flights are being directed to other taxiways, so there is no impact to airport operations at this time.”
“Two patients were treated on the scene by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue for minor injuries and did not require medical transport.”
It was not clear if the incident had anything to do with the residual effects of Friday national aviation ground stop.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned Friday that flight operations would be slow to rebound as airlines worked to reposition planes and crews following the allegedly tech-induced chaos.
Federal Aviation Administration officials are blaming a botched contractor job or faulty router as the likely cause for outages across multiple facilities nationwide.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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