2 jetliners clip wings at airport
A plane leaving a terminal at Newark Liberty International Airport clipped wings with another plane being towed to a hangar.
The outbound Lufthansa Boeing 747 clipped the right wing of a Continental Boeing 757, said Russ Halleran, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Assn. local at the airport.
None of the Lufthansa flight’s 291 passengers and 17 crew members was injured in the accident, according to Lufthansa spokeswoman Jennifer Urbaniak.
The damaged 747 returned to the gate and passengers, bound for Frankfurt, Germany, were transferred to another flight.
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