FAA investigating Delta airplane that struck tail of regional jet By Reuters

By David Shepardson

(Reuters) – Delta Air Strains (NYSE:) mentioned on Tuesday the wing of one in all its planes struck a regional jet whereas taxiing for departure at Atlanta airport, damaging each plane.

The Federal Aviation Administration mentioned it can examine the incident that occurred on the intersection of two taxiways round 10:10 a.m. ET.

The airline mentioned the wing of a Delta Airbus A350 that was set to depart for Tokyo-Haneda struck the tail of an Endeavor Air CRJ-900 that was scheduled to depart for LaFayette, Louisiana, leading to injury to the tail of the regional jet and the wing of the A350. Endeavor is a completely owned Delta subsidiary. Delta mentioned there have been no reported accidents among the many 221 passengers on the A350 and 56 passengers on the CRJ-900.

Numerous close to miss and runway incursion incidents final 12 months raised considerations about U.S. aviation security and the pressure on understaffed air site visitors management, prompting the Nationwide Transportation Security Board to name for extra know-how to forestall collisions.

FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker mentioned earlier at an trade convention on Tuesday that the company has deployed applied sciences at some airports that gives an alert if an plane is lined up on the fallacious runway or on a taxiway.

“We have began to deploy fairly easy off the shelf resolution for controllers to get higher situational consciousness,” Whitaker mentioned saying shut calls have been down by greater than half within the first half of the 12 months. “So there’s progress, however we have to get higher. There is not any excuse for that occuring.”

(This story has been corrected to say ‘no reported accidents’ in paragraph 3)