Delta planes collide at Boston airport

Two Delta Airlines commercial passenger aircraft have collided on the runway at Boston's Logan International Airport as they prepared for takeoff from the airport. The incident took place at 7:30 p.m. local time on Thursday (0030 GMT on Friday) when the wing from Delta flight 266, a Boeing 767 bound for Amsterdam, struck the tail of Delta Connection flight 4904, a smaller regional jet bound for Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, the Associated Press reported. The crash sheared off the tip of the Delta Boeing 767 and crumpled part of the smaller plane's tail. No one was badly hurt in the incident, though one passenger complained of a possible neck injury and was taken to a local hospital as a precaution. "We definitely felt a jolt when the planes collided, but it wasn't, I don't know if it was violent, nobody was like thrown forward in their seats or anything. We all just -- there was a general gasp," passenger Megina Bake, who was on the 767 jet, said. "I guess I was surprised that something like that could happen, I feel like it would have been avoidable accident if everyone would have been paying attention," Bake added. Dawn Ray, a passenger on the commuter jet, said, "There were a lot of people freaking out, the girl next to me was crying and screaming. It was terrifying -- everyone at once said, 'what happened?'" Some 204 passengers and 11 crew members were onboard flight 266. The Raleigh-bound flight had 74 passengers and three crew members onboard. Flight 266 returned to the gate and its passengers deplaned. People on ASA Flight 4904 were also evacuated and transported by bus to the terminal. Passengers from both planes were later re-accommodated on other aircraft. Logan International Airport spokesman Phil Orlandella said both aircraft have been removed from service for inspections. The collision comes just three months after a similar mishap at New York's JFK airport, when the wing tip of a giant Airbus A380 clipped the tail of a regional jet and spun it like a top.