2 passenger planes collide at Toronto airport; no injuries have been reported

The Transportation Safety Board says it’s investigating after two passenger planes collided on the ground at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Friday evening. No injuries have been reported. (Photo By Tristan in Ottawa from Ottawa, ON, Canada – Pearson Runway 06R, CC BY 2.0)

TORONTO — The Transportation Safety Board says it’s investigating after two passenger planes collided on the ground at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Friday evening. No injuries have been reported.

WestJet says one of its flights, inbound from Cancun, Mexico, with 168 passengers and a crew of six, was stationary and waiting to go to a gate when it was struck by a Sunwing aircraft moving back from a gate.

Spokeswoman Lauren Stewart says the WestJet passengers were evacuated from the aircraft via emergency slides and all were safely in the terminal and clearing customs shortly after the collision.

Sunwing says there were no crew or passengers aboard its aircraft, which was being towed by the airline’s ground handling service provider at the time of the incident.

The Greater Toronto Airports Authority says fire crews extinguished a small fire on the Sunwing aircraft and some flight operations were affected by the incident.

Witnesses took to Twitter to share pictures of firefighters around the tail section of the damaged plane.