One of many pilots concerned within the Delta Air Strains runway collision had no clue he hit one other aircraft … new audio reveals.
In audio from the cockpit, a pilot asks … “We simply hit one thing on the taxiway, might you inform us what it was?”
The offender was one other Delta Air Strains passenger jet … and air visitors management responded, “The entire tail of that CRJ is off.”
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The aircraft collision went down Tuesday at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport … and video and images from the aftermath exhibits precisely what air visitors management describes right here … a aircraft with its tail chopped off, and dangling to 1 facet.
Delta says the wing of an Airbus A350 hit the tail of a smaller, Endeavor Air CRJ-900 whereas each planes have been on the taxiway … and it sounds just like the pilots within the bigger jet have been caught completely off guard.
Thankfully, Delta Air Strains says no accidents have been reported on this incident.