Updated November 15, 2026, 11:55 a.m. ET
An airliner and a cargo plane collided on a taxiway at Miami International Airport on the evening of Saturday, November 14, causing minor injuries to two passengers and damaging both planes.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after controllers ordered the UPS plane to yield to the Copa Airlines plane.
The incident occurred around 9:15 p.m. local time. Two people were treated for minor injuries, ABC News reported, citing Miami-Dade Aviation.
Here’s what you need to know.
What happened?
Airport communications director Greg Chin said an arriving plane and a departing plane came into contact at the intersection of two taxiways, Reuters reported. Miami-Dade firefighters identified the plane as a UPS Boeing 767 and a Copa Airlines Boeing 737.
Copa Flight 427 had just arrived from Panama City with 166 passengers and six crew members on board, Islander News reported.
The two injured people were treated on scene by Miami-Dade firefighters but did not require hospitalization, according to Miami-Dade Aviation.
The airport said flights were being diverted to other traffic routes and operations were not affected.
UPS said in a statement that it was aware of an incident involving one of its planes on the ground in Miami.
Audio captures driver swap
Air traffic control audio captured the exchange moments after impact, according to Greekreporter.com. The Copa pilot radioed that another plane had hit the plane.
When a controller asked the UPS crew if the planes had made contact, a crew member responded, “Yes, we went too far and he hit us with his wing,” according to the report. The FAA is investigating.
Was it linked to national ground control?
There is no indication so far that the collision was caused by the FAA’s nationwide outage and ground stop on Nov. 13, CBS News reported. This occurred in the midst of recovery from this disruption, but at this point they are considered separate incidents.
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