"We hit another plane"
Emergency service personnel have rushed to the tarmac at Heathrow Airport as two planes accidentally bumped into each other while taxiing on the runway.
The incident occurred at 8 pm on September 27, at the London airport which handles more than 80 million international travellers each year.
It is believed that Korean flight 777 clipped an Icelandair 767 while taxing. The Korean Airport flight was scheduled to leave London at 7:35pm.
A passenger posted to Twitter from on board one of the aircraft: “Pretty sure we scrapped another plane with our wing tip while taxiing."
“We have been told that we are going back to the gate due to a technical issue."
“But that was 15 mins ago and we haven’t moved.”
Another passenger added: “We hit another plane while taxiing. I saw it out the window. Wingtip scrapped the tail of another plane.”
While a third said: “Surrounded by about ten police cars and a couple of fire engines.
“Apparently the plane has ‘a technical problem’.”
Footage of the emergency response was shared to Twitter, with the initial count of “4 or 5” emergency vehicles quickly updated to “6 or 7”.
Heathrow has since confirmed that the collision took place, but said that it wasn’t “full on”.
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