The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating a taxiway collision involving Copa Airlines and UPS aircraft at Miami International Airport, where controllers had instructed the cargo jet to yield.
The FAA said contact occurred around 9 p.m. ET Saturday, Nov. 14 (02:00 UTC Sunday). Copa’s Boeing 737 was moving toward a gate as UPS’s Boeing 767 was taxiing for departure to Bogota, Colombia. Controllers had told the UPS crew to let the Copa aircraft pass.
ABC News later reported, citing Miami-Dade Aviation, that two people received treatment at the scene for minor injuries and were not taken to a hospital. That differed from an earlier account to CBS News Miami by Greg Chin, communications director at Miami International Airport, who said no injuries had been reported.
Chin said flights were being routed onto other taxiways and airport operations were unaffected at the time.
