Japan Airlines, Delta Air Lines Planes Collide on Runway at Seattle–Tacoma Airport

The wing from the Japan Airlines jet impaled the Delta Airlines plane’s tail. No injuries were reported.

Workers on a lift check the area where the wing of a Japan Airlines jet went into the tail of a Delta Air Lines jet at the south end of a runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash., on Feb. 5, 2025. Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times via AP

A Japan Airlines plane struck a Delta Air Lines plane on the runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) on Feb. 5.

The airport announced the incident on Facebook on Feb. 5.