{"id":641088,"date":"2024-04-08T10:01:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T04:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=641088"},"modified":"2024-04-08T11:08:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T05:38:06","slug":"virgin-atlantic-aircraft-and-british-airways-plane-suffer-ground-collision-at-londons-heathrow-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/virgin-atlantic-aircraft-and-british-airways-plane-suffer-ground-collision-at-londons-heathrow-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Atlantic aircraft and British Airways plane suffer ground collision at London\u2019s Heathrow Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An empty Virgin Atlantic aircraft\u2019s wingtip collided with a stationary British Airways plane while being towed from a stand at London\u2019s Heathrow Airport on Saturday (April 6), as confirmed by both airlines. Heathrow Airport, the busiest in Britain, assured that no passenger injuries were reported and that it does not expect any ongoing disruption to airport operations. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur aircraft is being assessed by our engineering teams and we have provided an alternative aircraft to limit the impact on our customers,\u201d British Airways said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An empty Virgin Atlantic aircraft\u2019s wingtip collided with a stationary British Airways plane while being towed from a stand at London\u2019s Heathrow Airport on Saturday (April 6), as confirmed by both airlines. Heathrow Airport, the busiest in Britain, assured that no passenger injuries were reported and that it does not expect any ongoing disruption to airport operations. \u201cOur aircraft is being assessed by our engineering teams and we have provided an alternative aircraft to limit the impact on our customers,\u201d British Airways said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}