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By Bradley Jolly Two passenger planes have collided on the runway at Heathrow Airport. A tug was pushing back a Virgin Atlantic plane when its wing collided with the tail of a nearby British Airways aircraft, witnesses at the huge hub said. Photo show emergency services scrambling to the scene of the prang on the Heathrow taxiway at Terminal 3 of the west London airport. No one was on board the Virgin Atlantic plane at the time of impact, the airline said. A spokesman for Virgin Atlantic said: “The wingtip of one of our empty aircraft came into contact with another aircraft whilst being towed …

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