Two aircraft collided on a taxiway at Miami International Airport in Florida on the evening of Saturday 14 November 2026. A taxiway is the road that aircraft use to move between the runway and the terminal. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the United States air safety regulator, is investigating.
The FAA said the wingtip of a Copa Airlines Boeing 737 struck the nose of a UPS Boeing 767 while both planes were moving on the ground. The airport said the collision happened at about 9.15 pm local time.
Who was told what
The FAA said air traffic controllers had told the UPS crew to give way to the Copa flight. On air traffic control audio, the Copa pilot says: “Somebody hit us.” The UPS pilot replies: “Yeah, we went too far, and then he, he clipped us with the wing.”
The audio is a recording of the two crews speaking to controllers. It is not a finding about who was at fault. The FAA investigation is open.
The two flights
The Copa aircraft had arrived from Panama City and was moving to its gate. Copa Airlines said the plane carried 166 passengers and six crew members. The airline said they all left the plane safely and the aircraft was returned to the terminal. The UPS aircraft was moving out for departure to Bogotá, Colombia.
CBS News Miami reported the flight numbers as Copa Airlines flight 427 and UPS flight 358. The two planes met at the intersection of two taxiways, said Greg Chin, communications director for the Miami-Dade Aviation Department.
What is known about injuries
Copa Airlines said two passengers were treated at the scene by airport paramedics for what appeared to be minor injuries. The airline said the other passengers and the six crew members were in good condition.
The New York Times and CNN also reported that two people were treated at the scene for minor injuries. ABC News said they did not need to be taken to hospital. One wire report, from Anadolu and quoting CBS News, said no injuries were reported.
The reading that the reports support: two people were treated at the scene for minor injuries, the airport and the airline said, and both were well enough not to go to hospital.
Damage
The nose of the UPS cargo plane was heavily damaged, with a large hole in its outer skin. The Copa pilot said on the audio that part of the left wingtip was missing. Video of the damage spread on social media. The footage shows the damage; it does not show what caused it.
Airport operations
Greg Chin said arriving and departing aircraft were sent to other taxiways, and that the collision did not disrupt airport operations.
Context
The collision came one day after the nationwide FAA ground stop of Friday 13 November 2026, which this site has already covered. Miami was still working through the delays from that ground stop. CBS News reported that the FAA administrator, Bryan Bedford, said the United States flight schedule should be back to normal by the end of Sunday.
The New York Times noted that just over two months earlier a cargo jet overran a runway at the same airport. The National Transportation Safety Board said that accident, on 6 September 2026, hit two vehicles on the ground and killed five people. In a preliminary report on 1 October 2026, the board said an air traffic controller had cleared the plane to land without giving the pilots the required wind information. That report is about the September accident only. It does not link the two events.
What to watch
Watch the FAA investigation. It will say what the controllers told each crew and how the two planes came to be on the same taxiway at the same time. Until it reports, the audio and the two pilots’ words stay as claims, not conclusions.
Sources: FAA statement of 14 November 2026 as carried by ABC News, CNN, CBS News, the New York Times and the Boston Globe, 14-15 November 2026; National Transportation Safety Board, preliminary report of 1 October 2026 on the 6 September 2026 runway overrun at Miami International Airport; Anadolu Agency, quoting CBS News, 14 November 2026.
Image: Oleg Yunakov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Illustration — a Copa Airlines Boeing 737 of the type involved in the taxiway collision at Miami International Airport on 14 November 2026. It is not the aircraft involved in the collision.