Heathrow planes collide on taxiway

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The British Airways Boeing 747 to Singapore and a Sri Lankan Airlines Airbus A340 collided at 10.20pm on Monday.

A spokesman for British Airways described the incident on flight BA011 as a "minor collision", adding that no-one was injured and an investigation has been launched.

The spokesman said: "Our aircraft had a minor collision with another aircraft in the taxiways.

"Engineers are inspecting the aircraft to ascertain the damage. The passengers have been offloaded and returned to the terminal building.

"We do not have any more precise details of the collision while it is being investigated."

A British Airports Authority spokesman said: "Heathrow airport can confirm that two aircraft were involved in an incident earlier this evening on the ground.

"There are no reported injuries and passengers are in the process of being uplifted from the aircraft."

A spokesman for the London Ambulance Service said: "We were called to the airport at about 10.20pm, but we were stood down around 10 minutes later as there were no injuries."

A London Fire Brigade spokeswoman said: "We received a call from Heathrow at 10.13pm but we were stood down at 10.28pm. "No persons were reported injured and there were no signs of fire or damage to the aircraft."