The wingtips of two Japanese planes “scratched” at the airport, no casualties reported

The incident occurred at the domestic terminal of Osaka Itami Airport (representative)

Tokyo:

The wingtips of two passenger planes “scratched” each other at a Japanese airport on Thursday morning, an airport operator said, with reports that no one was injured.

The incident involving two All Nippon Airways aircraft occurred shortly after 10:00 am (0100 GMT) at Osaka’s Itami Airport domestic terminal, a Kansai Airports spokesman told AFP.

“We were informed that the wingtips of two ANA aircraft scraped each other,” the spokesman said.

Local media said no passengers or crew were injured.

The accident is the latest in a series of incidents involving Japanese aircraft and airports since the beginning of the year.

The most serious was the near-catastrophic collision between a Japan Airlines plane and a smaller Coast Guard aircraft at Haneda Airport on January 2.

All 379 passengers on board the Japan Airlines plane escaped just before it was engulfed in flames. Five of the six people on board the small plane died.

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