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Toronto flights delayed as two planes collide

India Blooms News Service | | Jan 05, 2017, at 04:42 am

# Toronto flights delayed #Two planes collide #Toronto Pearson International Airport

Toronto, Jan 4 (IBNS): Two airplanes at Toronto Pearson International Airport collided wings on Tuesday evening, media reports said.

An airport spokesperson told Global News that an Air France plane was parked when a taxiing Pakistan International Airlines plane made 'light contact' and struck the parked plane around 6 p.m, Global News reports said.

The spokesperson said there were no injuries.

Photos provided to Global News showed end of a wing of a plane was damage.

Usman Sherazi, who was on board PIA Flight PK789 when it landed in Toronto from Lahore, Pakistan at around 5:50 p.m., said he didn’t feel it when the planes made contact.

He said passengers were kept on the plane for about 45 minutes after it arrived at the gate with the seatbelt lights kept on adding the crew didn’t say what happened.

Sherazi added passengers had to wait for their bags for up to three hours after they got out of the plane.

Air France spokesman Herve Erschler told Global News on Wednesday that at that time cabin crew and two pilots were inside the aircraft but no passengers were on board the Air France plane

The plane, which was supposed to depart for Paris Tuesday evening, will remain in Toronto until the damage is inspected and repaired, the official said.

Erschler said a maintenance team from Paris would repair the damage to the plane.

No one from PIA was available for comment.

The Transportation Safety Board had been called in to investigate.

Aviation expert Jock Williams said incidents like were not unusual and added both planes would fly after their inspection had been completed and they were fully certified for flight.

(Reported by Asha Bajaj)

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