UPS Boeing 767 Collides with Copa Airlines 737 While Taxiing at Miami Airport

A UPS Boeing 767 and a Copa Airlines 737 collided while taxiing at Miami International Airport on Saturday night, November 14, 2026. An airport spokesperson said the aircraft made contact at about 9:15 p.m.

Airport officials reported no injuries and said flights were being routed along other taxiways without disrupting operations. The extent of damage to either aircraft remains unclear.

The Copa flight had just arrived from Panama City when the aircraft made contact, according to flight-tracking information. Both planes stopped nose-to-tail near the junction of Taxiways Y and P, a social-media post said.

The cargo aircraft was identified in air-traffic-control audio as UPS 358. A post about the incident identified the passenger aircraft as a 737-800.

Officials reported no injuries, but back-pain complaints were cited

Airport officials said no one aboard either aircraft was injured. Andy Slater, a journalist who posted about the incident, said two people on the Copa flight had complained of back pain. He also attributed to a fire department source a description of the collision as minor.

A person who said they were aboard one of the planes described passengers waiting for a tractor to move the aircraft toward the gate. The person said that, as they understood the captain, no one had been evacuated and no one was hurt at that point.

“No evacuation, no hurt people so far.”

That passenger account and Slater’s description differed in detail from the airport’s initial no-injuries statement. Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue has not confirmed whether anyone reported back pain.

The controller told UPS 358 to give way

Air-traffic-control audio captured an exchange after the contact. One pilot said, “Somebody hit us.” A controller then addressed UPS 358.

“UPS 358, you're supposed to give way to the 73 there.”

After a brief exchange that was largely unintelligible, the controller asked whether the UPS aircraft had hit the other plane. The pilot replied, “Yeah we went too far and he clipped us with his wing”.

Slater described the contact as the nose of one plane striking the other aircraft’s wing tip. The radio exchange provides an account from the cockpit, but no damage assessment accompanied it.

Flights shifted to other taxiways without disrupting airport operations

An airport spokesperson said the arriving and departing aircraft met at the intersection of two taxiways. Flights were directed to different taxiways, and officials said airport operations continued without an impact.

The collision came amid a separate nationwide aviation disruption. A ground stop was ordered on Friday, November 13, 2026. At the time, 50,000 flights were scheduled across the United States, and 30,000 had been completed. Officials projected that 4,000–5,000 of the 40,000 flights scheduled for Saturday would be canceled.

The nationwide halt was the first since January 11, 2023, when an FAA computer system malfunctioned, and only the second since the September 11, 2001, attacks, according to the account of the disruption.

A separate ground stop followed a communications failure

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the Friday stoppage stemmed from a communications issue affecting air route traffic control centers. He described outdated equipment at a remote location as the preliminary cause.

Duffy said contractor L3Harris was replacing copper wire with fiber when communications stalled. Officials had not determined whether user error, installation error or a faulty router caused the problem. Duffy said officials did not believe the outage resulted from a cyberattack.

L3Harris said it was modernizing communications infrastructure for the National Airspace System in coordination with the FAA. The airport collision and the nationwide communications outage were separate events.

Watch for statements from UPS and Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue as officials provide more details about the collision.