Passengers were startled were two planes collided at John F. Kennedy International Airport over the weekend.
According to a Jet Blue spokesman, Alex Headrick, an Air India flight collided with a Jet Blue flight near Terminal 4 early Saturday morning, CBS reports.
Two planes collided on the ground early Saturday at John F. Kennedy International Airport, forcing 155 passengers to disembark. Jet Blue Flight 145, which was heading to West Palm Beach, Fla., was standing near the gate when Air India Flight 102, which had just landed, clipped the Jet Blue plane.
The Jet Blue crew had been waiting for a new tow bar when the Airbus A320 was hit by the Boeing 777. They had realized before the incident that the tow bar was broken. The left wingtip of the Air India flight hit the rudder of the Jet Blue flight in the incident.
No one was injured in the incident but the 155 Jet Blue passengers had to switch their planes to continue on their flight to Florida.
Passengers on the Air India flight thought their plane had hit a pothole or a speedbump when it was actually hitting another plane. Some didn't even notice a change.
"It was a bump, but I don't know if, actually, there was any crash or something, because nobody said," one woman on the Air India flight said, according to CBS. "It was just a small thump, that's it."
"I'm not sure what happened, but I did not feel anything," another passenger said.
Many on the 15-hour flight that had arrived from New Delhi didn't know what had happened and they praised what they thought was a smooth flight.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident and trying to determine why the two planes collided. They said the aircrafts weren't under air traffic control when the incident occurred.
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