Two planes collide on Miami runway one day after full ground stop

A cargo and passenger plane collided on the tarmac of Miami International Airport on Saturday evening while both planes were taxiing.The Federal Aviation Administration said it is investigating the collision incident, which occurred around 9:15 p.m. Saturday evening, just one day after a nationwide ground stop across all U.S. airports.“The wingtip of a Copa Airlines Boeing 737 struck the nose of a UPS Boeing 767 while the airplanes were taxiing at Miami International Airport,” the FAA said in a statement. “Air traffic controllers had told the UPS crew to give way to the Copa flight. The Copa flight was taxiing to the gate and the UPS flight was taxiing for departure to Bogota, Colombia.” This is the latest incident at the airport this fall, coming just over two months after an Amazon cargo plane overran the airport’s runway and killed five people.There were two reported injuries in the collision on Saturday evening, according to Greg Chin, the airport’s communications director. The Copa Airlines plane, which had flown from Panama City, Panama, to Miami, had 166 passengers and six crew members aboard.“At approximately 9:15 p.m., an arriving aircraft and a departing aircraft made contact with each other at the intersection of two taxiways,” Chin said in a statement, adding that the incident did not cause any further “impact to airport operations.”DUFFY CRITICIZES FAA TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDER L3HARRIS FOR MISHAP THAT LED TO GROUND STOPAir traffic has been in the spotlight over the past several days after the FAA declared a nationwide ground stop on Friday, with flights being forbidden from taking off for over four hours. A nationwide ground stop has only occurred on two other occasions, immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks and after a 2023 computer outage.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has said the flight stoppage was due to a disruption as an L3Harris contractor was upgrading a telecommunications line from a copper wire to a fiber optic cable.