Copa jet and UPS plane collide on taxiway at Miami airport
The Copa 737's wingtip struck the nose of a UPS Boeing 767 bound for Bogota, and the FAA is investigating the second incident at the hub in two months.
A Copa Airlines passenger jet and a UPS cargo aircraft collided on a taxiway at Miami International Airport on Nov 14, a day after a technical failure triggered the longest nationwide grounding of US flights in more than two decades.
The wingtip of the Copa Boeing 737, flight 427 from Panama City, struck the nose of the UPS Boeing 767 after the cargo plane moved into its path, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and audio between controllers and pilots. The FAA said controllers had told the UPS crew, bound for Bogota, to give way to the Copa jet as it taxied to its gate.
"We went too far and then he clipped us with the wing," the UPS pilot said, according to the recorded exchange, after the controller asked whether the aircraft had hit Copa flight 427.
The FAA said it was investigating the collision, which happened around 9pm local time. Copa said its aircraft carried 166 passengers and six crew, and that paramedics evaluated two passengers for apparent minor injuries. UPS said its crew was safe. Both companies said they would work with the authorities.
Miami is the busiest airport in the United States for total freight, with almost 3.5 million tonnes handled in 2025, according to airport figures, and a particular focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.
In September, an Amazon cargo plane overran a runway at the same airport and killed five people on the ground. A preliminary investigation report found that a controller cleared the aircraft to land without providing wind information, which FAA procedures require when a tailwind exists.
The grounding the previous day was blamed on a data overload that crippled air traffic control communications and radar. More than 6,600 flights into, out of and within the US were cancelled on Nov 14 and another 8,350 were delayed, according to the aviation data firm FlightAware. By 12.40am in New York on Nov 15, a further 1,100 flights had been cancelled and more than 600 delayed.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he would formally ask Congress on Nov 16 to authorise $50bn in emergency funding to overhaul the US air traffic control system.
How the reports differ
Euronews and Ahram Online both set the collision against the nationwide ground stop, with Ahram describing it in its headline as happening a day after the grounding and Euronews leading on the disruption still facing travellers. The Hindu put the injury count in its headline, reporting at least two injured, while Copa's own statement said two passengers were evaluated for apparent minor injuries. NDTV led with the exchange between the UPS pilot and the controller. The Straits Times, drawing on Bloomberg, alone carried the September Amazon crash's preliminary finding on wind information, Miami's freight tonnage and Sean Duffy's plan to request $50bn from Congress.
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