Japan Airlines Plane Collides with Puerto Vallarta Bound Delta Plane at Seattle Airport

Seattle, WA — On Wednesday, February 5, a Japan Airlines aircraft collided with a stationary Delta Air Lines plane while taxiing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

The incident occurred around 10:17 a.m. Pacific time on a taxi lane between the S Concourse and the airport's south maintenance hangars. A Japan Airlines Boeing 787, preparing for its next flight, struck the tail section of a parked Delta Air Lines Boeing 737. The Delta aircraft, operating as flight 1921 with a scheduled route to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, was undergoing de-icing procedures at the time . . .