JetBlue flight crashes into empty parked plane at JFK
Daily MailIn another close call at JFK, a JetBlue flight bound for Puerto Rico bumped into an empty plane on the tarmac at the New York airport around 7am Wednesday morning. Passengers were returned to the terminal after a JetBlue flight bumped into another plane on the tarmac There were no reported injuries as a result of the collision AJetBlue spokesperson said that the San Juan-bound flight 'came into light contact with a parked unoccupied aircraft during pushback.' The agency said in a statement: 'JetBlue Flight 1603 struck the tail of a parked JetBlue aircraft while pushing back from the gate around 7am at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. A similar incident to Wednesday's occurred on January 2 at JFK when an ITA Airways plane clipped a Delta aircraft upon landing in New York after traveling from Rome.
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