JFK chaos: Airport buckles under pressure of rescheduled flights, broken equipment and a collision on the tarmac, resulting in severe delays for passengers two days after Bomb Cyclone struck
- Thousands of passengers are stranded at John F Kennedy airport following more than 6,000 flight cancellations or delays
- 'People are sleeping on the ground, people are sitting on the ground. People have taken over wheelchairs....It's complete chaos,' one passenger said
- A 'bomb cyclone' hit the Eastern Seaboard with hurricane winds and blizzard conditions on Thursday and prompted the airport to close
- The airport has been plagued with multiple mishaps since it reopened Friday
- A China Southern plane clipped the right tail end of a Kuwait Airways airliner around 12am Saturday morning
- Both aircrafts, which were Boeing 777s, sustained damage; no one was injured
- On Friday, an American Airlines flight bound for Cancun turned around for an emergency landing after someone on board said they saw a wing was on fire
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Thousands of passengers are stranded at John F Kennedy Airport following more than 6,000 flight cancellations or delays stemming from the 'bomb cyclone' that rocked the Northeast on Thursday.
The airport had closed on Thursday afternoon due to the storm and was reopened on Friday morning.
But the reopening has been compounded by further disasters - such as a plane needing to turn back for an emergency landing after a false alarm and a collision on the tarmac.
Passenger Lily Crawford told Pix 11: 'People are sleeping on the ground, people are sitting on the ground. People have taken over wheelchairs. There are no outlets, people are running out of power on their phone.'
She added: 'It's complete chaos.'
Chaos reigns at John F Kennedy Airport as thousands of passengers are stranded due to bomb cyclone-related delays and cancellations
Passengers are packed in quite closely in certain terminals as they ride out the travel nightmare in which they have unwittingly found themselves
