"While United Airlines Flight 863 was pushing back from ... ranging from near misses on runways to the horrifying and tragic airplane and helicopter collision that killed 67 over the Potomac ...

The incident occurred "in an area where air traffic controllers do not communicate with flight crews," the FAA said in a statement shared with PEOPLE Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE.

SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (KGO) -- United Airlines officials said that two of their planes were involved in a collision on the ground at the gate at San Francisco International Airport ...