Two planes collide on the ground at London’s Heathrow Airport

Two Boeing airplanes collid🐠ed on the ground at London’s Heathrow Airport on Saturday.

An empty Virgin Atlantic jet was being towed from a stand when its wingtip clipped a parked British Air♎ways airliner, the airline said.

No passengers were injured at the crash, and operations atꦚ the UK’s busiest airport were not affecꦚted.

“Our aircraft is being assessed by our😼 engineering teams and we have provided an alternat🍌ive aircraft to limit the impact on our customers,” British Airways said in a statement.

Virgin Atlantic said its empty Boeing 787-9 had just land🌳ed and was being towed to another part of the airfield whꦑen the incident happened at Terminal 3.

“We’ve commenced a full and thorough investigation and our engineering teams♏ are performing maintenance checks on the aircraft, which for now has been taken out of service,” a Virgin Atlantic spokes🎀person said.

The airline 🍸said there would be no disruption to its flight schဣedule.

Heathrow said it was wo🌳rking with emergency services and the two airlines in response to the incident.

Alex Whittles, a 47-𝔉year-old private pilot who witnessed the crash,  that the collision appeared inevitable as he watched.

 “There was an empty Virgওin 787 being pushed back by a tug, but the tug seemed to get the angle completely wrong and it was obvious they were about to clip the British Airways plane,” he told the paper.

“That’s why I was watch🌌ing so closely – and then I saw the crash.”

Whittles added that emergency crews were “incredibly quick” t🌠o respon🔯d.

“There was no fire or other concern — they just seemed to be making a plan on how to best detangle the🤪m without causing further damage to either plane,” he said.

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