An Air Canada plane has been grounded for repairs after crashing with another aircraft at Los Angeles International Airport following a flight from Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga.
The incident happened when an Air Canada plane was being towed to a gate after landing in LAX around 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, according to reports. That’s when the aircraft was hit by the left wing of a Delta Airlines plane.
Air Canada says in a statement that Flight 785 had arrived from Toronto before “an aircraft operated by another airline made contact with its tail.”
He says the plane will be taken out of service for inspection and repairs.
The flight left Pearson at 8:38 a.m. (ET) and landed at 10:20 (PT), but was delayed nearly an hour and a half getting to the gate following the collision, according to data from Flightaware.
No injuries were reported, and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is investigating.
The U.S. agency says the Delta plane’s left wingtip clipped the Air Canada aircraft’s horizontal stabilizer, a wing-like structure at the tail of a plane.
– With files from The Canadian Press
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