Korean Air plane bumps parked Cathay Pacific aircraft at a Japanese airport but no injuries

By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Associated Press

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese fire department says a Korean Air plane carrying 289 people hit a parked Cathay Pacific aircraft while taxiing to a runway at northern Japan’s New Chitose Airport. The two planes were parked next to each other and the KAL airliner bumped into the empty Cathay Pacific plane while moving to a runway on Tuesday, according to the Chitose City Fire Department. Fire officials said no one was injured and no fire or fuel leaks were detected. Two weeks ago, a collision between a Japan Airlines airliner and a coast guard plane on a runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport killed five of the six crew members on the smaller plane.