2 planes collide at Miami airport; passenger shares footage of crushed aircraft nose

NEW DELHI: A UPS cargo aircraft and a Copa Airlines passenger jet collided at Miami International Airport in Florida on Saturday night, damaging the nose of the passenger aircraft. No injuries were reported in the incident, which took place as one aircraft was arriving and the other was preparing for departure.Footage filmed by a passenger aboard the Copa Airlines Boeing 737 showed visible damage to the nose of the aircraft following the collision with the UPS Boeing 767. Images and videos circulating on social media showed the aftermath of the incident.Miami-Dade Fire Rescue confirmed that the two aircraft had made contact at the airport. Greg Chin, communications director at Miami International Airport, said the collision occurred at around 9:15 pm local time at the intersection of two taxiways."At approximately 9:15 p.m., an arriving aircraft and a departing aircraft made contact with each other at the intersection of two taxiways.