UPS Cargo Jet and Copa Passenger Plane Collide on Miami Airport Taxiway, Two Minor Injuries
Photo: Fox NewsA UPS cargo jet and a Copa Airlines passenger jet collided at the intersection of two taxiways at Miami International Airport around 9:15 p.m. Saturday, leaving two people with minor injuries. The FAA is investigating, and the incident came a day after a rare nationwide ground stop that had already disrupted air travel.
The FAA said the wingtip of the Copa Boeing 737, Flight 427 from Panama City, struck the nose of the UPS Boeing 767, Flight 358, which was preparing to depart for Bogotá, Colombia. Air traffic controllers had told the UPS crew to give way to the Copa jet, which was heading to its gate. Greg Chin, the airport's communications director, said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue treated two patients at the scene, neither needing transport, and that flights were redirected with no impact on operations. In air traffic control audio, a UPS pilot said: “Yeah we went too far and he clipped us with his wing.” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had warned that operations would be slow to normalize after Friday's ground stop, and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said schedules should recover by the end of Sunday. Federal officials linked that outage to aging air traffic control technology.
Left-leaning CBS News and The New York Times frame the collision against the previous day's disruption: the Times' summary stresses it came “a day after” the ground stop, while CBS leads with Chin's statement and adds Duffy's and Bedford's remarks and the aging-technology explanation. Right-leaning Fox News puts the two injuries in its headline and leans on the FAA's account of the give-way instruction, with Chin's quote. The Daily Mail goes furthest on drama, leading with the pilot audio and adding an X post from Fox Sports journalist Andy Slater that two Copa passengers reported back pain, while a fire department source called it minor. Both sides agree on the time, aircraft, location and minor injuries; they differ mainly in emphasis. Newsweek largely mirrors the FAA-based account.
How the sides differ Left sources tie the collision to the prior day's nationwide ground stop; right sources focus on the injuries, FAA account and pilot audio.
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CBS News leads with the airport's statement and the aftermath of Friday's nationwide ground stop, quoting Duffy and Bedford; The New York Times stresses the wingtip-to-nose impact a day after the disruption.
Newsweek gives a concise, FAA-sourced account: the wingtip-and-nose impact, the instruction for UPS to give way, two minor injuries and the open FAA investigation.
Fox News headlines the two injuries and relays the FAA's give-way account and Chin's statement; the Daily Mail leads with pilot audio and a journalist's post on back pain.
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