FAA investigating ground collision at Chicago airport

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it will investigate an incident at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport where a plane taxiing for takeoff clipped another plane Sunday evening.

No injuries were reported, the FAA said in an emailed statement.

The FAA said the left wing tip of Flight 11 from All Nippon Airways, a Japanese airline, hit the rear of a Delta Air Lines plane, Flight 2122, on Sunday around 6:30 p.m. in an area not under air traffic control.

The All Nippon Airways plane was a Boeing 777 aircraft, and the Delta plane was a Boeing 717.

The incident came as a winter storm halted flights in Chicago over the weekend. Flights arriving at O’Hare were delayed an average of two hours as heavy snow and blizzard conditions swept the Midwest and Great Lakes.

Sunday’s collision is the latest in a series of airplane incidents being investigated.

The FAA has another open investigation into Boeing after an Alaska Airlines plane panel blew off midflight earlier this month. The FAA grounded more than 100 Boeing planes and both United and Alaska Airlines have separately found loose parts in door panels on their Boeing 737 Max aircraft.

Transportation officials and police launched investigations into the communication between air traffic control and two planes after a fiery collision left five people dead in Japan early this month.

An investigative report by The New York Times published last August found that after reviewing FAA safety reports there was an alarming pattern of safety lapses and near-misses in the skies and on runways in the U.S. While no major crashes have happened, the paper noted that potentially dangerous incidents are happening more frequently than previously thought.