An plane incident on the Heathrow runway occurred at noon on Saturday when a Virgin Atlantic plane struck the tail of a British Airways plane with its wing.
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Nobody was on board the Virgin Atlantic plane, which is a Boeing 787-9.
A Virgin Atlantic spokesman mentioned: “The wing tip of one among our empty plane got here into contact with one other plane whereas being towed into Terminal 3 at London Heathrow.”
The spokesman added {that a} full investigation has been launched into the incident in addition to the situation of the plane.
British Airways mentioned its personal plane, an Airbus A350, was parked so there have been no passengers. And this plane is topic to inspections.
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