Story highlights A plane set for Denver knicks a fuel truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport Thursday morningEarlier in the week, two planes knocked into each other at the airportNew York (CNN) A United Airlines flight set to depart from New York to Denver early Thursday morning hit a fuel truck on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport, according to a United spokesman. It was the second collision of the week. Flight 1561 was moving back "very slowly" from the gate when it hit the truck, the spokesman, Jonathan Guerin said. The plane, a Boeing 737-800, returned to the gate where the passengers were taken off safely and put on another aircraft, Geurin said. On Tuesday, an American Airlines plane hit the right wingtip of a Republic aircraft while pushing back from the terminal gate, the FAA said.

Source: CNN January 20, 2017 00:11 UTC