Planes collide in Miami a day after a nationwide ground stop. Airlines may owe you nothing for hotels — who pays instead

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Two jets clipped each other on the Miami tarmac just a day after an FAA outage froze departures nationwide for more than 4 hours.

Just one day after the FAA grounded air travel across the country for more than four hours, two jets collided at Miami International Airport. To be more specific, a Boeing 737 operated by a Panama airliner called Copa Airlines clipped the nose of a Boeing 767 cargo jet operated by UPS while the two planes were taxiing. The incident happened around 9:15 p.m. Saturday and resulted in two injuries, Greg Chin, comms director at Miami International Airport, told CNN.

According to the FAA, air traffic controllers told the UPS crew, a flight headed to Bogotá, Colombia, to give way to the 737, a Copa flight that'd just landed from Panama City.

"Somebody hit us," the Copa Airlines pilot said on air traffic control audio. The UPS pilot then got on the radio saying, "yeah, we went too far, and then he, he clipped us with the wing."

The two injured people were treated at the scene, but the FAA is still investigating the matter. Officials have not tied the collision to Friday's outage.

U.S. travelers are still reeling from the FAA's nationwide ground stop issued Friday afternoon, after multiple Air Route Traffic Control Centers, the facilities that guide jets between airports, reported major communication issues.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said overloaded routers started feeding out inconsistent data, so officials shut the system down. FlightAware counted about 9,200 cancellations Friday and more than 5,000 Saturday, according to CBS News.

It was the first nationwide ground stop since January 2023, when FAA contractors accidentally deleted files in the system that sends pilots safety alerts, and only the second nationwide ground stop since 9/11.

You might be reading this as one of those affected by the thousands of cancellations over the weekend. If so, and your flight got canceled, federal rules say you're owed a refund if you choose not to travel, regardless of the reason. The hotel room you booked while you waited, though, is a different story.

There's no federal rule…

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