Two United Airlines planes – a Boeing 737 and a Boeing 767 – collided on the afternoon of Friday, October 17 at Chicago O’Hare International Airport in Illinois, United States.
According to reports, the accident occurred as the Boeing 737 operating flight UA2652 was taxiing to its arrival gate when it struck the left horizontal stabilizer of a parked Boeing 767.
No passengers were injured and the 113 passengers on Flight 2652 from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, were able to exit the plane normally after the delay, United officials said in a statement.
The 767 was in a parking configuration with no passengers on board at the time of the incident.
The airline said it was investigating the cause of the crash.
“There was some shaking,” said the passenger
Bill Marcus, a passenger on the flight from Wyoming, told CBS News Chicago that he didn’t even realize anything had happened until the pilot said he was going to be delayed to document something. Passengers also saw several people gathered around the right wing, he said.
“I was shocked that I didn’t feel something more, even though there was some jolt when they separated the planes,” Marcus told CBS News Chicago. It took about 40 extra minutes for the plane to reach the gate, he said.
Earlier this month, two Delta Air Lines regional jets collided at a taxiway intersection at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, injuring a flight attendant.
Such incidents on runways have raised concerns about aviation safety, which have come amid a series of crashes and near misses — including the deadliest US aviation disaster in a decade, when an Army helicopter collided with an airliner preparing to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in January 2025.
