Just as aviation safety experts started to examine several federal investigations, including the case of a near-miss between a charter jet and a Jetblue plane last week, two United Airlines planes clipped each other Monday morning.
Two United Airlines flights scheduled to depart from Boston's Logan International Airport on Monday made contact with each other near the gate area, federal aviation and airport officials said.
No one was injured when a plane bound for Newark, New Jersey, was exiting a gate and clipped a parked plane at a neighboring gate, a United Airlines spokesperson said in an email. There were other recent close calls at other major U.S. airports, including at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas last month and John F. Kennedy Airport in New York in January.Brian Cox, a retired airline captain and CEO of Safety Operating Systems, an aviation consulting firm, said American airports typically see a few near misses each year, but their frequency appears to be increasing.
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