JetBlue Plane Strikes Tail Of Parked Aircraft At JFK

New York City’s NBC affiliate reports:

A JetBlue flight from New York to Puerto Rico bumped into another plane in the gate area on Wednesday, the second time in a matter of days that two planes experienced an unusual incident at JFK Airport.

Flight 1603 “came into light contact with a parked unoccupied aircraft during pushback,” a JetBlue spokesman said in a statement. The plane returned to the gate; no injuries were reported.

The FAA confirmed that the JetBlue plane struck the tail of another JetBlue plane, both Airbus A320s. The agency said it would investigate the incident, and the airline said both planes would go out of service.

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A JetBlue flight from New York to Puerto Rico bumped into another plane in the gate area on Wednesday, the second time in a matter of days that two planes experienced an unusual incident at JFK Airport. https://t.co/VsDFtmWCnw

— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) January 18, 2023