In a significant incident at the Atlanta airport, a Delta Air Lines Airbus A350-900 bound for Tokyo collided with a Delta Connection CRJ-900, resulting in substantial damage to both aircraft. The accident occurred around 10:07 AM on September 10, 2024, as both planes were taxiing for departure. No injuries were reported among passengers or crew.
Delta flight 295 (N503DN) was scheduled to depart for Tokyo Haneda and Delta Connection flight (N302PQ) operated by Endeavor Air was en route to Lafayette, Louisiana. The A350 was carrying 221 passengers, while the CRJ-900 had 56 passengers onboard.
The A350’s right wingtip made contact with the CRJ-900’s T-tail while both aircraft were maneuvering on adjacent taxiways. The impact was severe enough to slice off the vertical and horizontal stabilizers of the CRJ-900. Photos and videos from the scene showed the regional jet’s tail hanging from the fuselage, while the A350 sustained damage to its wingtip.
Two Delta flights just collided on the tarmac at ATL #deltaairlines #atl pic.twitter.com/lZcM1GIQKK
— Jackson Lane (@jmurphylane) September 10, 2024
#BREAKING : Two Delta Airlines planes collide on runway at Georgia airport.
The crash occurred after Tokyo-bound flight DL295 hit the back of flight DL5526 to Louisiana as it was taxiing for takeoff.
The wing of the Airbus 350 'made contact' with the tail of an Endeavor Air… pic.twitter.com/jrleI05gqm
— upuknews (@upuknews1) September 10, 2024
Both aircraft were grounded, and their flights canceled. Passengers from both planes were transported back to the terminal and were reaccommodated on alternative flights scheduled for later that day. A Delta spokesperson confirmed,
There have been no reported injuries at this time, and customers are being transported back to the terminal where they will be re-accommodated on alternate flights.
Based on playback, it appears to be a ground collision between a Delta A350 and Delta Connection CRJ-900 that resulted in the vertical and horizontal stabilizer of the CRJ being severed from the aircraft.
CRJ-900: https://t.co/kz8QoQqx4r
A350: https://t.co/3bpspW99dV https://t.co/fn7cjYVWoj pic.twitter.com/LsUhPWgdVD— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) September 10, 2024
The CRJ-900 was severely damaged, and it’s unlikely it will return to service anytime soon. The A350 also sustained damage. Both planes were taxiing under their own power. Speculation is that this was a premium collision.
Pretty sure Tim will arrive soon to explain to us how this is not DL’s fault and it’s either AA, crowdstrike or Airbus fault.
Problem : Too many gates , too many planes , too many aircraft movements on the ground .
Solution : Less gates , less flights , therefore less aircraft movements on the ground .
Terrified Delta passengers got the premium experience they have come to expect.
Tim Dunn must be beside himself. Going to make some popcorn for his premium hot takes later on today.
you’re late to the party, Gary.
Ben has been on this story for hours.
Good thing your crack crew (yes, crack crew) was ready to pounce on the story as soon as you posted it.
I (and my bots) do dominate aviation social media better than even DL can do in ATL, DTW, MSP and SLC.
@Tim Dunn – I was ready to pounce but Southwest Airlines wifi would not support me
Ed’s booking another late night flight to Paris with his BFF in 3…2..1
do tell, Gary.
good thing that Delta just took delivery of another brand new A350 (#5 for the year) on top of a couple 330NEOs.
They have struggled to staff their RJs (or Endeavor has struggled to find pilots to fly the schedule DL wants) so the real bruise will be the string of media stories – guaranteed it will make all of the national newscasts.
Good thing oil prices are falling like a rock so the money DL is saving on fuel can be used for aircraft repairs (and replacement of the CRJ 900) which will be replaced by an E175.
@Tim Dunn – “Good thing oil prices are falling like a rock so the money DL is saving on fuel can be used for aircraft repairs (and replacement of the CRJ 900) which will be replaced by an E175.” not good for the refinery! :p
What’s that famous saying?
“Safety first!”
They devalued that CRJ-900 like it was a pile of SkyMiles
Was @Gary on the plane ? How did he know it was terrifying. No injuries.
It will be interesting to read the NTSB report. The captain is responsible for taxiing the aircraft. What were their qualifications and how many hours did they have when hired.
“ Good thing oil prices are falling like a rock so the money DL is saving on fuel can be used for aircraft repairs”
It’s almost like Tim has no idea about the tradeoff between new planes and old planes when it comes to the P&L and the price of oil
But no surprise
“ I (and my bots) do dominate aviation social media better than even DL can do in ATL, DTW, MSP and SLC.”
Tim
Not having a life and living your life in the comment sections isn’t anything to brag about
It just makes you sad
DEI in full view…
Gene,
for once we agree.
Of course the captain is responsible for his/her aircraft.
This was a 14 hour flight on a Tuesday on the A350, DL’s flagship.
There were 4 pilots in the cockpit and they all had to be in the top tier in terms of seniority.
ATC tapes show the pilots asked to stop in order to deal w/ some sort of issue and ATC told them to keep moving and not stop there.
Possibility is they were distracted w/ “the issue” but 4 pilots should have had some awareness of what was going on.
Max,
You just aren’t smart enough to figure out how to use technology to your benefit.
I live a very full life.
You just can’t stand that I can be as effective on social media and command as much attention while you just hit at the wind.
where’s your line to Gary about flying WN out of AUS and missing the opportunity to post this article onboard when he learned about it?
No wonder AA is in such a terrible position when even Gary flies WN over AA.
@Tim Dunn “No wonder AA is in such a terrible position when even Gary flies WN over AA.”
WN has a legal monopoly on the route I was flying.
since the US airline industry is domestically deregulated, all of them are legal – but I am guessing you were on your way back from DC.
Yeah, I take WN nonstops over someone else’s connection too.
esp. cuz I want them to get through this period.
lol
Statistically Gary would fly wn out of austin
But you must’ve missed he went to dca. Your amazing technology must be too great
I notice he didn’t fly delta 😉
Tim
Your lies are funny but no one thinks you’re smart or a master of tech because you’d have to be the worst user of tech to post such poorly written drivel absent fact
Grow up and get a life
It’s very amusing you’re now trying to say AI is how you reply
But you’re just stupid
AUS-DCA, Southwest has the beyond-perimeter exemption for this route, no one else can permissibly fly it. I’m doing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Aerospace Summit tomorrow, then back DCA-AUS.
To be blunt
From a consumer perspective
I will Be curious to see how Gary selects his routes as a consumer
Delta will likely have more nonstops than aa (aa. Not OneWorld where Gary would be upgraded) out of austin the next few months (I believe they do now)
Gary should be an interesting person, as an austin-based author, to see how he balances connections to delta hubs and nonstops vs aa/as or United hubs to bigger gdp centers
Vs the always -present WN and their nonstops from austin
He’s smart enough to know the reward of OneWorld offering out of austin vs sky team including mileage programs and nearby hubs and focus cities
I’m Truly curious and will watch how Gary considers it despite aa being a mess
Oneworld is still far more compelling from a loyalty perspective to the majority of major business destination in the US but he’s the author
I’m just interested to read his future reviews
“not good for the refinery!” Anytime that prices for crude oil drop is good for a company that owns a refinery to supply it with jet fuel. The only problem is that there may be a lag in the price of the jet fuel dropping depending on how the crude oil contracts are set up. If the entire refining capacity isn’t being used, buying some crude on the spot market can start lowering output costs. Of course there are many variables. A company that buys jet fuel on the spot market may have an advantage at this time, provided of course that they can get the cheaper product to where they need to use it and in sufficient quantities. Jet fuel prices do not respond to crude oil price changes in a completely linear way. The cracking spread for the refinery is still healthy if it is following the trend of other refineries.
More details need to be released. It looks like the CRJ did not pull far enough off of the main taxiway. Since this did not happen before, what changed or was it a pilot error?
Being able to taxi the aircraft without hitting anything or anyone is table stakes.
max is desperate to take control of the conversation but the focus is clearly about DL and the RJ. It is clear that the DL pilots were at fault; how anyone can come to any other conclusion is hard to understand.
The refinery is a hedge against higher prices. It does not necessarily bear fruit under even condition but when it does, the fruit is huge – to the tune of billions of dollars so far.
Of course WN is the preferred and largest carrier from AUS to DCA. why anyone thinks that any carrier that does not have the “license” to operate a monopoly route would have a smaller share is beyond logic – but some of the people on here don’t demonstrate logic.
jns,
doesn’t matter whether the CRJ was where it was supposed to be. The A350 followed and is responsible for making sure the pathway is clear to pass.
Let’s see who keeps coming back and back to post think you might want to look in the mirror Timmy
DL screwed up again today
When someone says that it gets in your head lol
Everyone should laugh at all the things Tim accuses others of as he is really talking about himself it must horrible living in that head of his keep it up everyone it’s so fun to watch him spin his web
So desperate
lol
You just hate that Gary may or may NOT fine a different value position
I could care less
You and everyone will know it won’t be related to reality because you’re actually insane and on the spectrum
Get a grip
Your life is so sad to everyone
You’re too dumb to comment intelligently
I’m surprised you don’t ask Gary why he doesn’t want to fly to delta’s gate squat spots like MFE/MAF/hrl
Do you think think that’s profitable, Timmy?
The Delta word salad is finally Dunn. At the end of the day Delta pilots screwed up and cost the company millions of dollars. The terrified passengers will probably get a ton of worthless Sky-Pesos and Delta will write it off.
Scary, glad it appears no one suffered any physical injuries.
Off topic, but since it was already mentioned….@Gary, while you’re at DCA can you try getting an in-person update to the Cap 1 Landing opening? 🙂
“doesn’t matter whether the CRJ was where it was supposed to be. The A350 followed and is responsible for making sure the pathway is clear to pass.”
And yet a collision occurred. Taxiing a jet as big as an A350 isn’t the same as driving the average sedan. There are stop lines that pilots are supposed to stop precisely at to avoid these situations as well as center lines they are suppose to track. Without the video of a forward facing camera at the tip of the wing being displayed in the cockpit, I’m not sure that the CRJ stopping short of where it was supposed to be could always be detected by the A350 pilot. I wonder if such a camera is there.
I’ve said for years that Diarrhea Delta’s pilots are the WORST pilots of any airline. Not once in my weekly flights for years now do Diarrhea Delta pilots land softly as I have come to expect with its many competitors from United to American to Lufthansa, BA, Air France, Qatar, Emirates, or Singapore.
The Diarrhea Delta “premium” experience on landing is usually one of Diarrhea Delta-branded water bottles flying down the aisles, passengers grabbing their seats, luggage shifting in the compartments, and the galley doors flying every which way. I often think a tire is going to burst from the pressure of landing so hard.
I guarantee that the FAA will find pilot error here. It is inexcusable. Hopefully, they fine this shit airline, tarnish its unearned, self-proclaimed reputation for “premium” service, and set it on the path to a second bankruptcy that it so desperately deserves.
Hear that Bastian? Or do you have to “run”?
Looking at the Flight Aware info and pictures,
It appears that that runway connector is not deep enough to allow wingtip clearance for jumbo aircraft to taxi behind it when occupied.
There is likely an airfield note to that effect somewhere.
PIC is ultimately responsible, but I expect FAA taxi procedures will take a hit as well.
BTW. Tim Dunn is usually right.
LOL. What on earth is a premium collision? @gary
Just saw a couple of comments on this post, alluding to what I have seen online. Post accident photographs have shown that the CRJ was sitting approximately 40 feet back from the demarcation line that an aircraft needs to have its nose right up to that line, when holding on an active taxiway waiting for clearance to proceed out onto an active runway. Granted, investigators will certainly be able to determine that, and if the 350 was actually traveling right down the center line of the other taxiway, as he should have been. Forty feet of clearance still leaves not much room when either aircraft or both may not have been where they should have been. Not a whole lot of room for error.
And very interestingly, that once again, @Tim Dunn has remained the poster child for Delta Airlines who can do no wrong. He has nailed the cause of the accident to be the fault of ATC to keep airplanes moving at any cost. I guess all of us, including @Tim Dunn, will have to wait for nearly two years to read the final NTSB report as to the probable cause of the accident. Delta Airlines will also be waiting with bated breath to read the report, hopefully showing Delta Airlines and the cockpit crews of both aircraft are completely exonerated.
One further comment. Most people who follow Gary and read his airline related articles in this blog, most likely fly fairly frequently and probably more than just one time a year. And how many times have we been on a flight, while moving along an active taxiway, a passenger decides to take off their seat belt and either stands up to get an item out of the overhead or decides it is time to hit the lav? Then almost immediately we hear over the cabin PA, a flight attendant saying loudly and with authority: “ Ladies and gentlemen, we are currently on an active taxiway. For your safety and those around you, please keep seated with your seatbelt securely fastened until the aircraft has come to a complete stop at the gate and the captain has turned off the fasten seat belt sign!” One passenger who was on the CRJ, in a TV interview, said there was quite a jolt when the 350 hit their airplane and he was sure he would have been thrown out of his seat if his seatbelt had not been fastened. This accident is just a very good example of always having that seatbelt fastened whether you are leaving or arriving at your gate on the ground or cruising smoothly at 30,000 feet.
“Worst pilots of any airline”? “…land softly”? As an airline pilot instructor, I can say that one might read some of Boeing’s manuals. “Grease jobs” are not encouraged as it is imperative that the “weight on wheels” system is activated by strut compression and wheel spin up. “Greasing it on” increases landing distance and diminishes braking action. It also increases the chances of a tail strike due to deck angle.