JFK chaos: Airport buckles under pressure of rescheduled flights, broken equipment and a COLLISION on the tarmac, resulting in severe delays for passengers two days after Bomb Cyclone struck
Thousands of passengers are stranded at John F Kennedy airport following more than 6,000 flight cancellations or delays
‘People are sleeping on the ground, people are sitting on the ground. People have taken over wheelchairs….It’s complete chaos,’ one passenger said
A ‘bomb cyclone’ hit the Eastern Seaboard with hurricane winds and blizzard conditions on Thursday and prompted the airport to close
The airport has been plagued with multiple mishaps since it reopened Friday
A China Southern plane clipped the right tail end of a Kuwait Airways airliner around 12am Saturday morning
Both aircrafts, which were Boeing 777s, sustained damage; no one was injured
On Friday, an American Airlines flight bound for Cancun turned around for an emergency landing after someone on board said they saw a wing was on fire
By FORREST HANSON and MICHELLE CURRAN
DAILYMAIL.COM
7 January 2018
housands of passengers are stranded at John F Kennedy airport following more than 6,000 flight cancellations or delays stemming from the ‘bomb cyclone’ that rocked the Northeast on Thursday.
The airport had closed on Thursday afternoon due to the storm and was reopened on Friday morning.
But the reopening has been compounded by further disasters – such as a plane needing to turn back for an emergency landing after a false alarm and a collision on the tarmac.
Passenger Lily Crawford told Pix 11: ‘People are sleeping on the ground, people are sitting on the ground. People have taken over wheelchairs. There are no outlets, people are running out of power on their phone.’
She added: ‘It’s complete chaos.’
A plane being towed at New York’s John F Kennedy Airport struck a Kuwait-bound airliner, prompting the flight to be cancelled.
A China Southern plane clipped the right tail end of a Kuwait Airways plane before the latter was due to takeoff for an overnight flight around 12am Saturday morning, the Port Authority said on Twitter.
Both aircrafts, which were Boeing 777s, sustained damage. No one was injured.
Kuwait Airways tweeted in Arabic that their plane was made inoperable due to the crash.
Passengers on Kuwait Airways flight 118 were taken to hotels and alternative routes for them will be planned, NBC New York reports.
The nightly low reached 9 degrees Fahrenheit (-13 degrees Celsius) the night of the crash.
The crash comes amid travel chaos across the East Coast in the aftermath of the ‘bomb cyclone’ blizzard which wreaked havoc along the Eastern Seaboard on Wednesday and Thursday.
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