Two planes collided with one another on a taxiway at Miami's international airport on Saturday night " a day after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an hours-long nationwide ground stop due to communication issues affecting multiple air traffic control centers. In a statement, the Trump administration-led FAA said the wingtip of a Copa Airlines Boeing 737 struck the nose of a United Parcel Service Boeing 767 "while the airplanes were taxiing at Miami International Airport".
The weekend was marked by thousands of flight delays and cancelations in the wake of a four-hour FAA ground stop on Friday which the Trump administration said stemmed from routine but botched maintenance aiming to switch telecommunication lines from old copper wire to fiber optic cables.