Delta Planes Collide at Atlanta Airport — Tail Knocked Off One

two planes at Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson Airport have collided on the ground officials say a Delta jet clipped a smaller plane on a taxi way tearing the tail off that smaller plane the Delta flight was taxing for takeoff on its way to Tokyo when its wing tip hit Endeavor Air flight to Louisiana Transportation correspondent Gio bonitz joins me now for more on that Gio what's the latest so Diane right now we know that there were 221 passengers on that larger Delta plane the a350 that was heading to Tokyo and we know that there were 56 passengers over on the smaller flight uh that was heading to Lafayette Louisiana uh but we don't know exactly what caused this we know that this happened and this is what we've been so worried about uh because over the past couple of years actually we've been looking at these incidents on taxiways right and people have been saying someday there's going to be a catastrophic Collision this one is pretty bad but thankfully we are learning from Delta that nobody has been injured so that's the good news that nobody was injured