Delta Planes Collide At Logan Airport In Runway 'Fender Bender': Report

A Delta Boeing 757 bound for Los Angeles clipped the wing of another plane as it taxied to a runway at Boston Logan International Airport recently, and a passenger live-tweeted the entire event.

A Delta plane clipped another one as it was being tugged to the runway last week.
Photo Credit: *Samantha Butler*

Josh Lanier

08/15/2022 4:51 p.m.

Samantha Butler, a UCLA professor returning home from a conference on Friday, Aug. 12, told WCVB about the surreal experience after her plane clipped the upper tail wing of another Delta jet parked nearby.

"It was the strangest — like we were in rush hour traffic, and we had a fender bender," Butler said. "It was so strange. ... We’re taxiing out, and there is a crunch — just a crunching sound. And the flight has backed into another plane on the tarmac."

She posted photos of the damage. Thankfully, no one was injured, WCVB reported.

But Butler tweeted that the story had a happy ending.

"@Delta found another plane and got us all back to LA safely — luggage intact," she wrote. "Special thanks to the flight attendants for their grace and willingness to share whatever information they knew."

People on Twitter quickly pointed out that the pilots likely didn't cause the crash. The blame, they said, belongs to the tug drivers who drag the planes away from the gates.

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