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Post says wings of two Air Canada planes collide at YVR

2023-09-06 09:37 ET - In the News

The National Post reports in its Wednesday edition that two Air Canada planes came into contact on the ground at a terminal at Vancouver International Airport on Sunday. Postmedia's Gordon McIntyre writes that the slow-motion collision ripped parts of the tips of the wings off each plane. Dirk Holstein saw it happen from a departure lounge. "At around 2:30 p.m. two planes hit each other with their wingtips," he said in a note with accompanying photos. His photos show an Air Canada Airbus A319 being backed out of its gate at the domestic terminal and clipping the wing of a parked de Havilland Dash 8-400. Passengers for the 28-minute flight to Nanaimo on the Dash 8-400 and for the five-hour flight to Quebec City on the A319 were put on other flights Sunday evening. Air Canada had no one available to speak on Monday but confirmed that one of its Rouge Airbus A319s made contact with a Jazz Express Q400 on Sunday afternoon while the Airbus was being pushed back from the gate. "The Rouge plane's wingtip made contact with that of the Q400, which was parked at a nearby gate," the statement read. "There were no injuries." A passenger told the CBC she saw a piece of her plane's wing on the ground after the collision.

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