It was the battle of German and Israeli Boeings at Ben-Gurion Airport.
A Germania 737 being pushed back from its gate at Israel’s international airport Wednesday morning clipped the tail of an El Al 767, the Times of Israel reported.
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No one was injured in the incident, according to the Israel Airport Authority, but all the passengers had to disembark the badly damaged and grounded jets.
“All of the passengers have been transferred to the terminal. At no point was there any danger at all to the passengers, and as has been stated, there were no injuries,” spokesman Ofer Lefler said.
The damage to the El Al plane – which had been stationary before the accident — was estimated at the “millions of shekels,” the news outlet reported.
The vertical stabilizer of the Berlin-bound German aircraft was almost completely shaved off by the Rome-bound Israeli jet’s horizontal stabilizer.
“The incident is under investigation and further details will be given later,” Lefler said.
According to preliminary reports, the person responsible for the incident is apparently the driver of the tow truck that moved the German plane from the terminal.
The collision comes on the heels of last week’s chaotic evacuation of a Czech plane due to fly from Budapest, Hungary, to Tel Aviv.
An Israeli woman was badly injured when she fell out the SmartWings Boeing 737 before the emergency slide was fully deployed.
