Two passenger planes collided with each other late on Wednesday on the tarmac while taxiing shortly before take-off at London’s Heathrow Airport, sparking an emergency response, the airport said.
Heathrow confirmed to local media that the incident between two commercial aircraft happened around 8 p.m. local time on Sept. 28 and involved Icelandair and Korean Air aircraft, noting that the accident wasn’t a “full-on” collision.
The Korean Air flight was scheduled to leave London shortly after 7:30 p.m. local time to Seoul, Korea.
Passengers aboard the commercial planes shared on social media what they experienced.
In a separate post, Richard said he was watching out the window while taxiing when he believed the plane suddenly “scrapped [sic] another [plane] with our wing tip.”
“I was watching out the window thinking we were awful close to the tail for a parked plane,” the eyewitness told the publication. “And then it looked like we grazed it.”
“The captain hasn’t really told us much except we are going back to the gate due to a technical issue,” the passenger said, adding that the last announcement from the captain “was about 45 mins ago.”
An LAS spokesman told the Daily Star that they were called at 8:06 p.m. local time about an incident that happened at London’s Heathrow Airport.
“We sent a number of resources to the scene including members of our Hazardous Area Response Team (HART), a clinical team leader, a cycle responder and an incident response officer,” the spokesman said.
“We attended a reception center for passengers but nobody required treatment or needed to be taken to hospital.”