Plane strikes another at RI airport; no one hurt

An official says people escaped without injury after a plane carrying 36 passengers struck an empty one on the ground at T.F. Green Airport in Rhode Island.

Airport spokeswoman Patti Goldstein says US Airways Express Flight 3315 to Philadelphia was being pushed away from a gate when it hit an empty, stationary US Airways plane next to it.

She says that neither plane was powered at the time and that the employee pushing the US Airways Express flight back let it get too close.

Goldstein says the wing of the Philadelphia-bound plane was damaged. She says there was minor damage to the other plane, Flight 815 to Charlotte, N.C., but didn’t have details.

Both flights were canceled and passengers put on other flights.