Reports: Delta regional jet bumped by wide-body at JFK

A Delta Connection regional jet apparently was clipped by a Royal Jordanian Airlines' Airbus A330 wide-body aircraft Sunday night at New York's JFK Airport. Officials from the Port Authority that operates the airport described it as a "minor incident," according to New York's Newsday newspaper.

The incident occurred just after 7 p.m. ET Sunday. The Associated Press reports that a Delta Connection Embraer regional jet was waiting to taxi to a gate when it was bumped from behind by the nose of the Royal Jordanian aircraft. AP cites a spokesman for Republic Airways, the parent company of Chautauqua Airlines that was operating the Delta Connection flight.

No injuries were reported.

There were 159 passengers on the Royal Jordanian aircraft and 44 on the Delta Connection regional jet, Port Authority spokeswoman Erica Dumas tells Newsday.

Peter Knudson, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, tells Newsday the agency was awaiting an "assessment" of the planes' damage to determine if it was "substantial enough" to require an investigation. Knudson says a decision was likely to come on Monday, according to Newsday.

Port Authority officials declined to give additional details on the incident.

The spokesman for Republic tells AP that Chautauqua's Delta Connection regional jet taxied to the gate under its own power and that all passengers and crew members exited the aircraft normally.

The incident is one of several to occur at New York airports in recent years. The highest-profile of those incidents came in April 2011, when a giant Airbus A380 being operated by Air France clipped a Delta regional jet and spun it about 90 degrees. Video of the incident went viral and made headlines across the USA.

And in May 2013, a wide-body aircraft operated by Scandinavian carrier SAS and a United Express regional jet clipped each other at Newark Liberty International Airport.