Passenger jet, cargo plane collide at Miami International Airport; 2 injured
FILE: Airport runway (Photographer: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
A passenger jet and a UPS cargo plane collided on the runway at Miami International Airport Saturday night, injuring two people.
According to airport officials, it happened around 9:15 p.m.
Miami airport plane collision
What we know:
Greg Chin, communications director for the Miami-Dade Aviation Department, said a Copa Airlines Boeing 737 hit the nose of a UPS Boeing 767.
According to The New York Times, air traffic controllers to the UPS plane to yield for the Copa flight as the Copa plane taxied to the gate. Data from FlightAware shows the Copa plane had just landed from Panama City. The UPS plane was departing to Bogotá, Colombia, The Times reports.
Chin said two people were treated for minor injuries at the scene.
What we don't know:
It’s unclear exactly what caused the planes to collide.
What they're saying:
"Flights were directed to other taxiways, so there was no impact to airport operations," Chin told FOX Local.
The accident comes a few months after an Amazon cargo plane overshot the runway at Miami’s airport and struck multiple vehicles, killing five people. The cause of that crash is still under investigation, but an initial investigative report showed several factors likely contributed:
New details emerge in deadly Amazon plane crash
At least 5 people are dead after an Amazon cargo plan barreled off a runway at Miami airport. The NTSB is leading the investigation.
- Air traffic controllers didn’t tell the pilots about strong tailwinds in Miami as they’re required to do
- The plane touched down at 184 mph, three quarters of a mile past the start of the runway
- The pilots were too late when they may have tried to abort the landing.
The Source: This article includes information from Miami-Dade Aviation Department Communications Director Greg Chin, The Associated Press and previous FOX Local reporting.