New | Wings clipped as China Eastern Airline planes collide on Shanghai airport runway

Two China Eastern Airline planes were involved in a collision that left their wings clipped at the Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport at about noon on Wednesday.

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Flight MU2153, an A319 aircraft flying from Xian, Shaanxi province, to Shanghai, had just landed at the airport and was making its way to a gate when its right wing clipped the left wing of another plane on the runway, Xinming Evening News reported.

The wings on both planes were slightly damaged. MU2153’s passengers left the plane at around 12.40pm. No casualties were reported, the article said.

A passenger told the newspaper that the clipping felt like “cars passing the deceleration strip”.

The other plane, Flight MU2154, an A320 aircraft, had been scheduled to depart Shanghai for Xian after noon.

Some aircraft maintenance technicians said the collision was not serious and that it would cost about 800,000 yuan (HK$947,500) in total to fix the damage on both planes, but it could also cost as high as $1 million to replace one winglet.

Additional reporting by Sijia Jiang