Planes Collide on the Tarmac at JFK, Between JetBlue and Air India Passengers Unharmed [VIDEO]

Two planes collide on tarmac at JFK Airport in New York on Saturday morning.

An Air India flight hit a JetBlue plane after their landing on the tarmac around 6:19 a.m., clipping the wing of the JetBlue aircraft near Terminal 4. The JetBlue plane was carrying around 150 passengers heading for West Palm Beach, Florida.

There were no injuries reported according to reports and a JetBlue spokesperson confirmed the incident and forced to disembark and boarded to another plane before departing to their destination.

"There was a noise. You could feel the vibration but I didn't know what happened," an Air India passenger said.

The collision caused the JetBlue flight to be delayed nearly three hours.

"While crews went to get a new towbar, an air India flight taxied into the area and made contact with their aircraft," Alex Headrick, a spokesman for JetBlue, told NBC News. "The JetBlue aircraft sustained damage to its rudder and taxied back to the gate."

A spokesperson with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said that none of the passengers on either plane were injured.

A transportation source said, "At the end of the day, this is a minor situation. There were no injuries and, not too long after that, passengers that were on the plane went on a new flight and were taken out."

The FAA is looking into the situation and said the plans were not under traffic control when the collision took place.

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