- Two passengers suffer minor injuries as wingtip of landing Copa jet slices through nose of UPS freighter preparing to take off
MIAMI 15 NOVEMBER 2026 (Agencies) – A Copa Airlines Boeing 737-800 and a UPS Boeing 767 freighter collided on the ground at Miami International Airport on the night of November 14, with two passengers suffering minor injuries.
The collision happened at around 9.15 pm local time, when the Copa aircraft, which had just landed and was taxiing to the gate, sliced through the nose of the 767 with its left wingtip as the freighter was preparing to take off. Copa Airlines flight 427 had just landed from Panama City with 166 passengers and six crew on board. UPS flight 358 was preparing to take off for Bogota, Colombia. The Panamanian airline said two passengers on its aircraft suffered minor injuries, though neither required hospitalisation.
Air traffic control audio that has since been made public shows the 767 had been instructed to give way to the taxiing 737. For reasons yet to be determined, however, it went too far ahead, and its nose entered the area where the other aircraft was moving. Passengers on the Copa flight filmed the aftermath of the collision from inside the aircraft, and the footage has been posted on social media. Pictures taken after the incident show significant damage to the nose of the freighter.
The collision came as airports and airlines across the United States were still recovering from a nationwide ground stop the day before. The nationwide outage, which lasted about four hours, has been attributed to technical issues with air traffic control equipment.