Atlanta plane crash today: Delta plane hits tail of Endeavor jet in collision at Georgia airport, airline and FAA say

ATLANTA — Two Delta Air Lines planes collided as they both taxied for takeoff from busy Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta Tuesday morning.

The wingtip of a Delta Airbus A350 “made contact” with a Delta CRJ 900 regional jet operated by Endeavor Airlines, Delta Air Lines spokesman Anthony Black said.

No one was injured in the collision and passengers on the regional flight were taken back to the terminal by bus, Black said.

Photos obtained by CNN and posted on social media show the regional flight’s vertical tail separated from the rest of the plane flanked by airport rescue vehicles.

Passengers will be placed on alternate flights, Delta said in a statement. There were 221 passengers on board the Airbus and 56 customers on board the regional jet, the airline said.

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Publicly available information from the Federal Aviation Administration shows that the impacted runway is closed and several nearby taxiways are also closed.

“As Delta Air Lines Flight 295 taxied to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, its wingtip struck the tail of Endeavor Air Flight 5526. The Delta Airbus A350 was en route to Tokyo. The Endeavor Bombardier CRJ900 was en route to Lafayette, Louisiana,” the FAA said in a statement.

The FAA said it was investigating what happened, and Delta said it was cooperating with the National Transportation Safety Board “and other authorities” on the incident.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was the No. 1 airport by passenger volume in 2023 and is expected to serve about 110 million passengers in 2024, according to Airports Council International’s preliminary 2023 rankings released in April.