Korean Air plane 'strikes' Cathay aircraft in Japan, no injuries
A Korean Air Airbus A330 "struck" an empty Cathay Pacific plane while taxiing at New Chitose Airport in Sapporo, Japan. The incident occurred during pushback when a third-party ground handler vehicle slipped due to heavy snow. Cathay Pacific confirmed that its aircraft was stationary at the time, with no passengers or crew onboard, and no injuries were reported. Korean Air stated that there were no injuries among the 276 passengers and 13 crew on board its Airbus A330-300, which was scheduled to depart for Seoul Incheon from New Chitose. Both airlines noted that passengers needed to be transferred to other planes. The airport firefighters were on standby, but no oil leaks or fires were reported. This incident comes two weeks after a near-catastrophic collision at Tokyo's Haneda Airport between a Japan Airlines airliner and a smaller coast guard plane. In the previous incident, all 379 people on board the Japan Airlines Airbus escaped before the aircraft caught fire, resulting in five deaths on the smaller coast guard plane.
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By- Sahiba Suri
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