UPS cargo jet and Copa Airlines plane collide while taxiing at Miami airport; two treated
Photo: Daily MailA UPS cargo jet and a Copa Airlines passenger plane collided while taxiing at Miami International Airport around 9:15 p.m. Saturday, leaving two people with minor injuries. Airport officials said operations were not disrupted, but the collision came a day after a nationwide flight grounding caused widespread cancellations and travel chaos.
The Copa flight, arriving from Panama City, had just touched down when it was struck at the intersection of two taxiways. UPS Flight 358 was bound for Bogota, Colombia. In air traffic control audio, the controller told the UPS crew it was supposed to give way, then asked if it had hit the other aircraft. The UPS pilot answered, “Yeah we went too far and he clipped us with his wing.” Airport communications director Greg Chin said flights were being routed to other taxiways. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue treated two patients on scene, and neither needed transport. Fox Sports journalist Andy Slater reported that two people on the Copa flight complained of back pain, while a fire department source called the incident minor. On Friday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that operations would be slow to rebound, and FAA officials blamed a botched contractor job or faulty router for the outages.
The right-leaning Daily Mail and New York Post lead with the collision itself and the cockpit audio. The Mail headlines the moment the pilot tells controllers they were hit and adds Slater's account of back pain. The Post names Chin and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, says it was unclear whether the incident related to the grounding, and recounts Duffy's and the FAA's explanations. The two differ on contact: the Mail says one plane's nose met the other's wing tip, while the Post says the Copa wing clipped the UPS nose. The left-leaning CNN, in its headline and excerpt, frames the collision around the previous day's grounding and the resulting chaos. It does not mention the audio, injuries or officials. All three agree on the day, location and aircraft involved.
How the sides differ Right sources detail cockpit audio and injuries, with one noting the link to the grounding is unclear; left source ties the collision to the previous day's grounding.
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- Friday's nationwide flight disruptionLeft “national grounding”Right “national aviation ground stop”
CNN headlines the collision at a Miami runway crossing and ties it to the previous day's nationwide grounding and the resulting cancellations and travel chaos.
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The Daily Mail and New York Post lead with the collision and cockpit audio, naming the UPS and Copa flights, the minor injuries, airport and fire officials, and the Post adds Duffy and FAA comments on the outage.
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