Two aircraft clipped wings as they taxied to runway for takeoff, with no reports of injuries
Flights were briefly suspended at Manchester airport on Friday morning after two easyJet planes collided, clipping wings as they taxied to the runway for takeoff.
The aircraft, which were flying to Paris and Gibraltar, came into contact at about 6.30am but were able to return to a stand where all the passengers disembarked. There are no reports of injuries.
A spokesperson for Manchester airport said: “We suspended operations briefly while they were assessed to see if they could taxi back to a stand, which they could so operations resumed after a few minutes.”
Tynisha Chaudhry, who was on the Gibraltar-bound flight with her partner, compared the collision to a car crash. “We felt the whole plane shudder – it was a massive hit,” she told the BBC.
