{"id":923406,"date":"2026-10-07T00:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T00:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923406\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T00:52:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T00:52:26","slug":"delta-plane-clips-air-canada-aircraft-at-lax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923406\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta plane clips Air Canada aircraft at LAX"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The incident occurred around 10:30 a.m. local time as the Delta plane was taxiing for departure, and the Air Canada plane was being towed toward the gate.Christinne Muschi\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration says it is investigating after a Delta Air Lines plane \u201cclipped\u201d an Air Canada aircraft at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The aviation agency says the incident occurred around 10:30 a.m. local time as the Delta plane was taxiing for departure, and the Air Canada plane was being towed toward the gate. <\/p>\n

An Air Canada spokesperson says there are no reported injuries. <\/p>\n

Sean Davidson says in a statement that Air Canada Flight 785 had arrived from Toronto before \u201can aircraft operated by another airline made contact with its tail.\u201d<\/p>\n

He says the plane will be taken out of service for inspection and repairs. <\/p>\n

The U.S. agency says the Delta plane\u2019s left wingtip clipped the Air Canada aircraft\u2019s horizontal stabilizer, a wing-like structure at the tail of a plane. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: The incident occurred around 10:30 a.m. local time as the Delta plane was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-923406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}