MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, FLA. (WSVN) – Two planes, officials said, collided on the tarmac Thursday night at Miami International Airport.
Video from Only In Dade showed a Frontier Airlines plane and an American Airlines plane parked on the tarmac, where one of the planes had a puncture on its tail.
According to both airlines involved, the wing tip of American Airlines flight 929, which was heading from MIA to Sao Paolo, Brazil, made contact with the tail of the parked Frontier aircraft.
7News spoke to a passenger who was supposed to be on the Frontier flight.
“There’s like a few hundred of us in the terminal all very, very angry,” Christian Galvez said. “They told us that an American Airlines plane had clipped the back wing.”
Galvez, 25, was upset about the whole incident.
“We got to the airport two hours early, we end up being there for six hours. We paid for our flight, for our seat,” he said.
He told 7News he would have been in Texas if the planes didn’t collide.
“Go see the city, see the country, see some cows,” he said.
But the one thing that Galvez is worried about is whether or not he will get his money back after paying for his flight.
“If they decide to not refund all of our money, that’s like $500 lost,” he said. “We already spent money on tickets to go to the aquarium, to go to a bunch of other places in Texas that we are probably not going to get that money back either.”
Frontier Airlines provided the following statement:
Yesterday evening as a Frontier Airlines aircraft was parked at the gate at Miami International Airport, preparing to board passengers for a flight to Dallas-Fort Worth, an American Airlines aircraft pushing back from its gate came in contact with the Frontier aircraft. Only crew members were on board the Frontier aircraft at the time and no injuries have been reported. Frontier is currently assessing damage and re-accommodating customers.
Frontier Airlines
American Airlines also provided the following statement:
“During pushback from the gate in Miami (MIA), the wing tip of American Airlines flight 929 with service from MIA to São Paulo (GRU) made contact with the tail of a parked aircraft. Customers deplaned normally and the aircraft was taken out of service to be inspected by our maintenance team. We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience this caused.”
American Airlines
No injuries were reported.