Two JetBlue Airways planes collided on the tarmac at Boston Logan International Airport early Thursday morning, damaging both aircraft but causing no reported injuries.
JetBlue Flight 777 was entering a de-icing pad lane before taking off for Las Vegas when its left winglet struck the right horizontal stabilizer on the tail of JetBlue Flight 551, which was on an adjacent de-icing pad on its way to Orlando, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.
The collision occurred at 6:40 a.m., the F.A.A. said, adding that the agency would investigate. No passengers or crew members were injured, JetBlue said in a statement.
“Safety is JetBlue’s priority, and we will work to determine how and why this incident occurred,” the company said.
Casey Cunningham was beginning a vacation to Orlando with her mother when the plane she was on was struck.
“The plane does jolt a little bit, we definitely feel the plane move,” Ms. Cunningham said in an interview. “The captain comes over the intercom and says, ‘We felt that, just so you all know.’”
The captain, she said, explained “that another plane that was going to de-ice came into contact with ours.” Afterward, she praised the crew of her flight on social media for communicating well with passengers.
All of the passengers were moved to new aircraft, JetBlue said, and both flights took off shortly after the incident, flight tracking data showed.
The previous month, an American Airlines plane crossed a runway in front of an oncoming Delta Air Lines plane at Kennedy International Airport in New York, narrowly avoiding a collision.
Last year, the F.A.A. gave more than $100 million to a dozen airports to help prevent accidents after a series of near collisions.
The money will go toward building additional taxiways for planes to move around airports, and better lighting to help guide pilots.
The agency issued a safety alert last March, saying that while its data did not show an increase in incidents, “the potential severity of these events is concerning.”
Another stress on the system is a lack of air traffic controllers, stretched thin by a national staffing shortage.
