Two planes collided on the ground early Saturday at John F. Kennedy International Airport, forcing 155 passengers to disembark.
An Air India flight and a Jet Blue flight made contact near Terminal 4 at the airport around 6:15 a.m. Saturday morning, according to Jet Blue spokesman Alex Headrick.
Jet Blue Flight 145, bound for West Palm Beach, Fla., was standing near the gate when it was clipped by Air India Flight 102, which had just landed, the spokesman said.
Headrick said it all started the Jet Blue flight was pushing back from the gate when its crew realized the plane’s tow bar was broken.
It was while the Jet Blue crew was waiting in place for a new tow bar, that the Jet Blue Airbus A320 was clipped by the taxiing Air India plane — a Boeing 777.
The left wingtip of the taxiing plane hit the rudder of the Jet Blue Airbus A320.
The 155 passengers switched planes. No injuries were reported.
09/03/13 CBS New York
