2 Alaska Airlines jets bump at LAX

Just to clear up something. One was pushed into the other by a worker using an aircraft tug (see one model in second picture). Commercial jet airplanes have no reverse gear and must be pushed away from the gate. The departing plane was not "backing away...".

An Alaska Airlines jet bumped into another one Monday while pulling away from a gate at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said. No one was injured.

An Alaska Boeing 737 carrying 117 passengers to Washington, D.C., was pushing back from its gate when its left winglet made contact with another Alaska jet, said airline spokeswoman Amanda Tobin Bielawski.

The departing plane "was backing away from the gate at very slow speed," she said.

The winglet, a small vertical fin on the outer tip of a wing, was damaged. The second plane, a parked and empty Boeing 737, had damage to the horizontal stabilizer in its tail.

Via Boston Globe.