The incident resulted in the Singapore-bound flight being cancelled. --PHOTO: REUTERS
BEIJING - TWO aircraft collided at Beijing's international airport on Saturday, China's state media reported.
The wing of a taxiing Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 hit the tail of a stationary Air China Boeing 737-800, Xinhua said.
The incident resulted in the Singapore-bound flight being cancelled. While the incident happened at around 9am, the 248 passengers onboard SQ803 were asked to disembark only 2 hours later.
'Engineers were inspecting the plane to see if the aircraft could be fixed immediately,' a spokesman for the airline explained. The spokesman also added that the affected passengers were provided hotel accommodations for the night.
Pilot error was likely to be behind the incident, in which no one was hurt, said the report, citing an official from China's Civil Aviation Administration.
Beijing's airport, which was shrouded in fog at the time of the incident, is home to one of the world's largest terminals, the 98-hectare Terminal Three, designed by Norman Foster and opened in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics in 2008. -- AFP
