Ticker: Delta plane wing clips empty aircraft; Ford delays next gen EV pickup
A Delta Air Lines plane clipped another aircraft while pushing back from the gate Sunday morning in Atlanta, the airline said.
The wing of the plane “reportedly made contact” with an empty aircraft, Delta said in a brief written statement to The Associated Press.
The flight was scheduled to travel from Atlanta to Guatemala City, according to FlightAware, a website that tracks flight disruptions. Passengers were transferred to another plane following a delay.
On board the commercial aircraft were 192 customers, two pilots and four flight attendants. No injuries were reported, according to Delta, which has its headquarters in Atlanta.
Ford delays next gen EV pickup
Ford Motor Co. is delaying the launch of its next-generation electric commercial van and electric full-size pickup truck to 2028, the automaker confirmed.
They are the latest postponements in a wave of EV product cancellations and delays as the automotive industry realizes demand for expensive EVs with high-cost, large batteries needed to address range anxiety — and the charging network to support them — just isn’t there in the eyes of many U.S. consumers.
That trend likely is set to accelerate with the Trump administration’s work to dismantle regulations around greenhouse gas emissions and incentives for EV transactions in what he has characterized as an effective “EV mandate.”
Ford nearly a year ago had said it would launch the commercial van in 2026 at its Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Lake outside Cleveland. At the time, it also had delayed the start of production by 18 months of the full-size pickup truck to the second half of 2027 at the new BlueOval City assembly plant in Stanton, Tennessee, outside Memphis.
Pickup prototype production still is set to launch in 2027, Ford spokesperson Jessica Enoch said.
