Recently, on May 17th two Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by Alaska Airlines collided—pushing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. These two aircraft clipped wings over their scheduled destinations-however delayed.
Both aircraft headed for Sacramento International Airport & John Wayne Airport, Orange County-but instead spent the night receiving repairs. The collision—passengers were moved to replacement aircraft & sent to their scheduled flights. The aircraft were back in service the following day—after repair to the 737-800s had been completed.
Upcoming Update to Aircraft Scheduling Announced
So far, the aircraft was bound for Orange County-made precise reach on a destination for three hours and two minutes later. This overall replacement flight, AS1094, landed at Sacrament two hours and was 16 minutes late. This damage 737-800s, N56AS, and N514AS are active again, indicating it wasn’t that severable.
The first flight of the repaired planes is as mentioned below-
N563AS followed up on the repair scheduling within 11:53 PDT flight on May 18—from Seattle to Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport-SIT. Meanwhile, N514AS was repaired on Seattle to San Jose Mineta International Airport-that takes around 2 hours & six minutes—with no risk and injuries reported. The collision afterward made a full recovery.
Second Ground Collision Incident Hits Seattle Airport
This particular incident was on 17th May and wasn’t exactly a one-off because a similar ground collision one month earlier happened. That time, the win of Japan Airlines Boeing-787 collided with the tail of a standing stationary Delta Air Lines Boeing 737.
As far as all of this, the airport safety deplaned the passengers & let them go to the terminal with no injuries. However, for all other flights, officials crashed with minimal impact on operations. This incident was almost similar to the recent collision of the 737-800s-adding possibility to the layout of the gates and taxiways at SEA for seamless multiple plane operations.
