A United Airlines flight collided with another United plane while approaching its gate at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Friday.
According to United Airline officials, the incident occurred when Flight 2652, arriving from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with 113 passengers aboard, clipped the horizontal stabilizer of a stationary plane.
No injuries were reported and passengers were able to exit the plane after a 40-minute delay.
"I was shocked that I didn't feel something more, although when they separated the planes there was some shuddering," passenger Bill Marcus said.
Marcus said he didn’t realize anything had happened until the delay was announced.
Earlier this month at New York's LaGuardia Airport, two Delta Air Lines regional jets collided at a taxiway intersection. One flight attendant was injured during the incident.
On Sept. 28, an American Airlines flight was forced to abort its takeoff at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) when an AeroLogic flight crossed an active runway without authorization in the evening. Controllers immediately directed the American crew to halt takeoff procedures to prevent a potential crash, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said.
The two planes never came closer than 5,200 feet from each other, the FAA said. Flight tracking data from FlightAware showed that the AeroLogic flight had recently finished a journey from Shanghai to Los Angeles.
One day after the LAX incident, maintenance workers at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina found a dead body in the landing gear compartment of an American Airlines plane that had arrived from Europe, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD).
The body was found during routine maintenance. The FBI are investigating the death of the 25-year-old Guatemalan national, Jose Joaquin De Leon Santiz, and the Guatemalan consulate has notified his next of kin, the CMPD said in a press release.
Aviation experts estimate about 75 percent of people who attempt to hide in plane undercarriages do not survive due to severe cold temperatures and oxygen deprivation at cruising altitude.
In another incident in August, an American Airlines flight from Philadelphia to Phoenix made an unscheduled landing at Washington Dulles International Airport after a passenger's electronic device caught fire. The Airbus A321 was carrying 160 passengers and six crew members. "We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience this caused and thank our crew for their professionalism," the airline said in a statement at the time.
United Airlines also experienced an emergency in July, when Flight 108, a Boeing 787 carrying 219 passengers and 11 crew members, returned to Washington Dulles International Airport after experiencing a left engine malfunction shortly after takeoff. The flight was bound for Munich when pilots issued multiple "mayday" calls to air traffic control, according to audio recordings published on YouTube by "You can see ATC."