NBC News has reported that a British Airways commercial flight bound for London failed to make it off the tarmac in Johannesburg on Sunday night after one of the craft’s wings slammed into a building near the runaway.
Harriet Tolputt, a representative for international aid agency Oxfam who was on the flight, reported via Twitter that no passengers had sustained injuries during the incident.
BA plane crash. J burg pic.twitter.com/djTNGHLODL
— Harriet Tolputt (@HarrietTolputt) December 22, 2013
The airline is reportedly in the process of launching a full investigation.
[NBC]