SEA-TAC AIRPORT -- Two Alaska Airlines jets were damaged when one aircraft bumped into the other while pulling out of a gate at Sea-Tac Airport on Wednesday morning. Airport spokesman Perry Cooper said one of the Boeing 737s was pulling out of gate D1 just after 7 a.m. when its wing hit the horizontal stabilizer on the tail of another Alaska jet that was parked at gate C9. No one was injured, but the plane that was being pushed back had 139 passengers on board and all were evacuated. Alaska Airlines spokeswoman Bobbie Eagan said the plane with passengers on board was flight 660 headed to Dallas. The other aircraft was empty. Eagan said the passengers scheduled to fly to Dallas were moved to another plane that took off at 9:15 a.m.It was not clear how much damage the two planes sustained. "We'll definitely take those aircraft out of service and do a very thorough safety inspection before we would ever fly them again," she said. The airline says it will do a full investigation into what happened.
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