Passengers Felt 'Whole Plane Shudder' as 2 easyJet Planes Clipped Wings Colson ThayerAugust 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM Two easyJet planes' wings came in contact while taxiing to the runway The incident occurred at the Manchester International Airport in England on Aug.
- - Passengers Felt 'Whole Plane Shudder' as 2 easyJet Planes Clipped Wings
Colson ThayerAugust 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Two easyJet planes' wings came in contact while taxiing to the runway
The incident occurred at the Manchester International Airport in England on Aug. 15
"We felt the whole plane shudder — it was a massive hit," a passengers told the BBC
Two easyJet planes came into contact at Manchester International Airport, the airline has confirmed.
The incident occurred the morning of Friday, August 15 in Manchester, England. A spokesperson for easyJet told PEOPLE, "the wing tips of two aircraft came into contact whilst taxiing to the runway."
Videos and photos captured by passengers were posted to social media shortly after the event. TikTok user @charlbowers posted a video showing what appears to be a wing tip bent in half.
In a video obtained by PEOPLE, an airport official wearing an orange vest makes his way to the grass to retrieve a piece of one of the planes that was seemingly sliced off.
Tynisha Chaudhry, a 21-year-old on the plane to Gibraltar, told the BBC the experience was like a car crash."We felt the whole plane shudder — it was a massive hit," she told the outlet.
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Two easyJet planes collide while taxiing to the runway at Manchester Airport.
"The aircraft returned to stand to disembark customers and customers were provided with refreshment vouchers," the airline's statement noted. "A replacement aircraft and crew were arranged so that all customers could continue their journey this morning."
One of the planes was on its way to Gibraltar while the other was heading to Paris.
The airline confirmed an investigation into that incident has been launched. No injuries have been reported.
The collision caused a pause in airport operations."We suspended operations briefly while [the planes] were assessed to see if they could taxi back to a stand, which they could so operations resumed after a few minutes," a spokesperson for the airport told ABC News.
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An airport official recovers a damaged piece of an aircraft.
Representatives for the airport did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment. — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
Earlier this year, two planes had a near miss on the runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. On May 6, a Republic Airlines jet had to hit its brakes to avoid a collision with a United Airlines plane.
"An air traffic controller at LaGuardia Airport in New York canceled the takeoff clearance for Republic Airways Flight 4736 because United Airlines Flight 2657 was taxiing on the same runway," the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement provided to PEOPLE following the incident.
"The stop was as hard as any car accident I've been in," Republic passenger Renee Hoffer told the .
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