{"id":923942,"date":"2026-10-07T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923942\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:16:11","slug":"air-canada-flight-from-toronto-struck-by-delta-plane-at-lax-no-injuries-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923942\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada flight from Toronto struck by Delta plane at LAX, no injuries reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Air Canada flight from Toronto was struck by another aircraft on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>An Air Canada spokesperson told CityNews that flight AC785 was being towed to the gate after landing safely, when the left wing of an Airbus A350-900 operated by Delta Airlines made contact with its tail at approximately 10:30 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reported injuries to any passengers or crew.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Canada spokesperson said the aircraft will be taken out of service for inspection and repairs.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Delta Airlines confirmed the incident Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing is more important than the safety of our customers and people, and we apologize to our customers for the experience and delay in their travels,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Kitchener as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=kitchener.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791371771_821_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Air Canada flight from Toronto was struck by another aircraft on the tarmac at Los Angeles International&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-923942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923942","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=923942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}