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July 22 (Reuters) – The tail of a Gulf Air passenger plane was hit by one other airplane at Dubai Worldwide Airport on Thursday, Bahrain’s state information company BNA reported, in what a Dubai Airports spokesperson described as a minor incident.
UAE Common Civil Aviation Authority mentioned on Thursday in assertion, “This morning a minor collision occurred between two planes, one belonging to Fly Dubai and the opposite to Gulf Air on a runway at Dubai Worldwide Airport leading to minor injury to the tail of one of many two planes and the wing of the opposite, with out inflicting any human casualties.”
BNA didn’t determine the opposite service, however United Arab Emirates airline flydubai confirmed that one in every of its Boeing 737-800 plane was concerned in a “minor incident” with one other airplane on the taxi means with preliminary studies exhibiting injury to the wing tip.
“On account of this, one runway was briefly closed to permit for the minor incident to be swiftly managed. Operations at DXB weren’t impacted and the runway was reopened after two hours,” a spokesperson for Dubai’s state airport operator, Dubai Airports, mentioned in a press release to Reuters.
BNA made no point out of any accidents or injury and mentioned Gulf Air was “working to reconnect all of the passengers to their ultimate locations”.
A flydubai spokesperson mentioned in an electronic mail to Reuters none of its passengers or crew have been injured, including that passengers have been accommodated on a later flight, which had departed.
Bahrain’s Gulf Air didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.
(Reporting by Ghaida Ghantous Modifying by Robert Birsel and Steve Orlofsky)
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