Air France jet clips smaller plane at New York's JFK airport - CNN.com
(CNN) -- An Airbus 380 clipped a smaller plane while taxiing to the runway for takeoff from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, according to CNN's Jim Bittermann, who was on the Air France flight headed to Paris.
Bitterman said that he felt a slight rumble -- akin to hitting a pothole -- as his plane was moving on the ground Monday at about 8:15 p.m. The pilot then stopped the plane, and eventually fire department crews surrounded it and the other aircraft.
Looking out the window, Bitterman could see that the last foot or so of the Airbus 380's left wing had been damaged. The other plane also suffered some damage.
There were no injuries, said a spokeswoman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who declined to give her name.
The Federal Aviation Administration has been notified, and Port Authority police detectives were interviewing the pilots of both aircraft, the spokeswoman said.
