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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Katie Hawkinson

Planes clip wings while taxiing at Reagan airport: One had members of Congress aboard

An aircraft’s wingtip hit another plane on the runway at Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport on Thursday afternoon.

American Airlines Flight 5490 struck American Airlines Flight 4522 on the taxiway around 12:45 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration. One flight was en route to Charleston, South Carolina, while the other was heading to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

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