| 09 Aug 2012 Malaysia Airlines
Plane,China Eastern Air Jet Graze Each Other On Tarmac |
By James
SHANGHAI--A Malaysia Airlines plane and a China Eastern
Airlines Corp. (0670.HK, CEA) jet grazed each other Thursday on the tarmac of
Shanghai's primary international airport, according to local authorities, who
said no one was injured.
In a brief statement, the Shanghai Airport
Authority said the two planes "scratched" each other at F9, a reference to one
of Pudong International Airport's taxiways. The brief statement offered no
information about what caused the incident.
The statement identified the
China Eastern jet as an Airbus A340-600 and the Malaysia plane as a Boeing Co.
(BA) 777-200. The carriers couldn't be reached for comment.
Photos on
the circulated on Sina Corp.'s Weibo microblog service showed a tear in the
left-side tail-wing of the China Eastern plane.
Flight registers show
both planes were slated to depart Pudong on Thursday afternoon, and are now
delayed. The Malaysia Airlines MH-389 flight was headed to Kuala Lumpur and the
China Eastern MU-583 jet was scheduled to fly to Los Angeles, according to
Flightstats.com.
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