It was David vs. Goliath at JFK — and Goliath won by a knockout.
A giant Air France Airbus A380, the biggest commercial airliner in the world, was taxiing for takeoff to Paris last night when it clipped a Delta commuter jet from Boston that had just landed at Kennedy Airport — nearly knocking the much smaller plane on its side.
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The FAA said there were no injuries in the 8 p.m. mishap, although both Air France Flight 007 and Delta’s Comair Flight 6292 were damaged. The 238-foot Airbus can carry 538 passengers and 22 crew members. Delta’s 106-foot Comair plane can carry 62 passengers and a crew of four. The FAA is probing the cause, in which the Airbus’ wing clipped the other jet’s tail.
“I’m just glad this happened on the ground,” said Lawrence Grotts, who’d been headed for Tuscany.