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Ryanair apologizes after 2 planes clip each other on runway

An investigation is being carried out after two Ryanair aircraft "clipped one another" on the runway at Dublin Airport Tuesday morning. Screengrab/Emily Carroll

TORONTO – An investigation is being carried out after two Ryanair aircraft “clipped one another” on the runway at Dublin Airport Tuesday morning.

The Irish low-cost airliner apologized for the incident in an online statement, saying two of their aircraft were “taxiing slowly to the runway [shortly before 7 a.m.] when the winglet of one aircraft appeared to have scraped the tail of the other.”

One flight was departing to Edinburgh in Scotland while the other was heading to Charleroi in Belgium.

Emergency services attended the scene; no passengers were reportedly injured.

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Passengers on board posted photos of the damaged planes on social media. Photos of the aftermath appear to show a tip of one plane’s wing missing .

— Emily Carroll (@EmzCarr) October 7, 2014

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A passenger on one of the aircraft said although the impact was minimal, she still felt the plane shake.

“We just kind of turned a corner and hit into another plane,” said Andrea Cunningham in an interview on RTE’s Morning Ireland programme. “It wasn’t a huge impact to be honest but you could see the plane shook and then it kind of just stopped.”

Ryanair said that both aircraft were under the instruction of Dublin Airport Air Traffic Control at the time of the collision.

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