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Check this out!!  Not a good few days for Newark!!!

NEWARK, New Jersey (CNN) -- Two commercial planes bumped into each other Tuesday on a Newark International Airport runway, delaying hundreds of passengers on a trans-Atlantic flight.

Lufthansa flight LH403, headed to Frankfurt, Germany, bumped into another plane, said Lufthansa spokeswoman Jennifer Urbaniak. A wing on the Lufthansa Boeing 747 was damaged, she said.

In a statement, Lufthansa said there were 291 passengers, three infants and 17 crew members on board. No injuries were reported.

The second plane was an empty Continental Airlines Boeing 757, which was being relocated to a remote overnight parking spot "and was in a stationary position" when the contact occurred, the airline said in a statement.

It "was apparently brushed by a taxiing Lufthansa 747 aircraft," Continental said. "It appears that the 747's left wing brushed the 757's right wing."

The Lufthansa flight was canceled, said Alan Hicks, spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He added the Federal Aviation Administration will investigate.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/31/plane.crash/index.html

They sure crank 'em out at Newark; I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.
But so much for German precision...

Bad day at Newark again, with the typical media response, right after it happened, cnn.com had a big red "NEWS ALERT", "Two planes have collided at Newark, no report on the masses surly killed and injured in this horrific accident." (or something like that )  Now all it says a few stories down on the list, "757 Bumps 747".  Oh well, sometimes you just never know what's really happening down the street...

Bad day at Newark again, with the typical media response, right after it happened, cnn.com had a big red "NEWS ALERT", "Two planes have collided at Newark, no report on the masses surly killed and injured in this horrific accident." (or something like that )  Now all it says a few stories down on the list, "757 Bumps 747".  Oh well, sometimes you just never know what's really happening down the street...

But it got you glued to THEIR news channel and not some other program though.  ::)

Matt

Just watching the News...the commentator spoke about the fact that both planes where heading in the same direction.Anybody heart about that?

But it got you glued to THEIR news channel and not some other program though.  ::)

Cnn.com is my homepage, just so I'm not totally and utterly cut off from the rest of the world.  The only other place I get my news is from "The Onion" - http://www.theonion.com/content/

The only other place I get my news is from "The Onion" - http://www.theonion.com/content/

Mob, that's rather saddening.

Hey, there's two campus newspapers and the Onion here, so I choose the most truthful and trustworthy of those newspapers, and you can see what my choice is.

LOL (sort of)- I saw that 747 parked on the ramp at KEWR as we were taxiing for departure today- couldn't see any damage from where I sat.

Hey, there's two campus newspapers and the Onion here, so I choose the most truthful and trustworthy of those newspapers, and you can see what my choice is.

I know where you're coming from. The only news I read these days are the "quirkies" at Ananova.