Posted on 05/25/2017 4:13:28 PM PDT by Morgana
Hundreds of passengers were forced onto the runway in Austin on Wednesday evening when a United plane's wing struck an American Airlines flight.
United flight 898 was taxiing from Gate 19 to the runway for its flight to Austin at around 8:20pm when it clipped American flight 2675. That plane had just landed from JFK and was taxiing to Gate 21.
One of the United flight's passengers told KXAN that after the nasty scrape the pilot came on over the intercom and admitted that he was at fault.
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That’ll buff right out.
How many United passengers had to be beaten because of this?
United is having quite a year.
Must be that D*mn Trump.
Single handedly taking down United.
Who writes this stuff — “a wing clipped a flight”?.
No, a wing of a United plane clipped part of an American Airlines plane. Probably the wing.
Why was the United airplane taxiing to the runway in Austin for a flight to Austin?
Runway incursion.
United flight 898 was taxiing from Gate 19 to the runway for its flight to Austin
Why fly if you can drive.
Not a career enhancer for the captain
I doubt if they even scraped the paint off either wing.
The sad part is - I heard passengers on both planes were stuck and could not return to the gate for several hours while officials from both airlines pointed fingers at each other and waited for the FAA.
Lucky they didn’t have another “Tenerife” on their hands.
Keep Austin Away
Very bad reporting and no editing.
Why fly if you can drive.
There are two airports in Austin. Considering how bad Austin traffic sucks - perhaps it would be better to actually fly from Austin to Austin.
Seriesly.
The article said the wing clipped the tail of AA.
Dinging your, and another multi-million dollar aircraft, full of passengers on the ground, is not a resumé enhancer.
Have you driven in Austin traffic? It's almost as bad as taxiing on the AUS ramp.
“Why was the United airplane taxiing to the runway in Austin for a flight to Austin?”
It was a round-trip.
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