Two Jets in Small Accident in Tampa

Sep 1st, 2005 | By Jared Blank

A Southwest Airlines 737 clipped another Southwest 737 while taxiing at Tampa’s International Airport yesterday. No one was injured when a flight to Baltimore tried to taxi around a flight to Phoenix. The aircraft were taken out of service and replaced with other, non-clipped airplanes.

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