The Korean Air flight was being pushed towards a runway when the towing vehicle slipped on snow. Photo: Handout
Two planes collided at the heavy-snowed tarmac of Japan airport on Tuesday which happened to be the second aircraft incident in the country within a couple of weeks.
According to a Korean Air official statement that said, its flight KE766 clipped the wing of a parked Cathay Pacific Airways plane at New Chitose Airport on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido at around 5:35 pm local time amid wintry weather.
However, no injuries were reported on either aircraft, and no fire or fuel leaks were detected, a fire department spokesperson told local news media.
Cathay later announced that its flight CX583 from Sapporo to Hong Kong would not operate as scheduled due to the incident but most customers would be moved onto another service on Tuesday and the rest on Wednesday.
The Korean Air plane had 276 passengers and 13 crew members on board but there was no one on the Cathay aircraft, the report said.
The dented part of the Korea Air Line after the collision, no injuries were reported
The collision happened around 5:35 pm local time, when a towing car pushing the Korean Air plane backwards towards a runway ahead of departure slipped on some snow, leading the jet’s left wing to bump the Cathay Pacific plane’s right tail wing, the Korean Air official said.
There was no immediate word on the severity of damage to the aircraft, or what exactly caused the taxiing jet to clip the parked one.
The incident comes two weeks after a deadly crash at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, where Japan Airlines Flight 516 carrying 379 people burst into flames after colliding with a coast guard plane.
Over 80 inbound and outbound domestic and international flights at New Chitose Airport have been cancelled due to bad weather on Tuesday, the airport spokesperson said.
大韓航空飛機在日本機場與國泰航空相撞，這是兩週內第二次的墜機事故
週二，兩架飛機在日本機場大雪停機坪上相撞，這是該國幾週內發生的第二起飛機事故。
據大韓航空官方聲明稱，當地時間下午 5 點 35 分左右，在寒冷的天氣中，大韓航空 KE766 航班在日本北部北海道新千歲機場停放的一架國泰航空飛機的機翼被折斷。
然而，消防部門發言人告訴當地新聞媒體，兩架飛機都沒有人員受傷的報告，也沒有發現火災或燃油洩漏。
國泰航空隨後宣布，由於該事件，其從札幌飛往香港的CX583航班將不會按計劃運營，但大多數乘客將在周二轉乘另一趟航班，其餘乘客將在周三轉乘。
報道稱，大韓航空飛機上載有 276 名乘客和 13 名機組人員，但國泰航空飛機上沒有人。
事故發生在當地時間下午5 點35 分左右，當時一輛牽引車在出發前將大韓航空飛機向後推向跑道，但在積雪上打滑，導致飛機的左翼撞到了國泰航空飛機的右尾翼。官員表示。
目前還沒有關於飛機損壞嚴重程度的消息，也沒有說明到底是什麼原因導致滑行的飛機撞上停著的飛機。
兩週前，東京羽田機場發生了一起致命事故，日本航空 516 號航班載有 379 人，與一架海岸警衛隊飛機相撞後起火。
機場發言人表示，由於週二天氣惡劣，新千歲機場80多個進出港國內和國際航班被取消。
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