Ryanair passengers travelling to Edinburgh and Zadar, Croatia were delayed for hours after two of the budget airline’s planes clipped wings at Dublin Airport this morning. Photos snapped by travellers show the tip of a winglet dangling by a thread after clipping the other plane - and it's the second time in six months two Ryanair planes have collided at Ireland's busiest airport. Passengers escaped injury when the planes collided as they taxied to a runway shortly before 8am, but the incident caused disruption for hundreds of travellers. Passengers snapped photos of the damaged winglet after two Ryanair planes collided at Dublin Airport . Passengers escaped injury after two Ryanair planes clipped wings while taxiing to a runway at Dublin Airport . Passenger Shannen Murphy, who was seated on the Edinburgh-bound plane which lost part of its winglet, told MailOnline Travel: ‘We were just about to approach the runway and there was another Ryanair plane quite close, but I thought maybe it had broken down or something. ‘And then next of all there was a jerk in the plane, which felt like we had gone over a really big pothole.’ Moments later the pilot announced over the tannoy that there had been ‘an incident’ with another plane and passengers would have to return to the terminal. Shannen said passengers were stuck on the plane for up to 90 minutes, as they waited for buses to arrive, and they arrived in Edinburgh about three hours behind schedule. ‘As soon as we were off [the bus] we were taken straight to a new plane and within 30 minutes we were up in the air.’ One of the Ryanair planes' winglets was left dangling after the collision on a taxiway at Dublin Airport . Emergency services attended the scene of the collision as a precaution. Passengers on board both planes were taken back to the terminal by bus and put on replacement aircraft to continue their journeys to Scotland and Croatia. The Boeing 737s involved in the collision were taken out of service to undergo inspections and any necessary repairs. The collision caused delays for other flights, with one passenger tweeting: '2 jets hit at Dublin, my flight to Malaga delayed'. Dublin Airport said in a tweet: ‘No injuries on the two aircraft which clipped each other on a taxiway this am. Passengers in process of being taken off the aircraft.’ A passenger snapped this photo of the Boeing 737s after they collided while taxiing to a runway . Emergency services attended the scene of the collision as a precaution, but were not needed . Dublin Airport sent a series of tweet urging passengers to check their flight status . Referring to a similar incident that occurred in October, one passenger wrote on Twitter: ‘Ryanair have done it again, two aircraft have collided while taxiing to the runway #ryanair #facepalm’. A Ryanair spokesperson said the collision occurred as two planes ‘were taxiing slowly’ to the runway. The spokesperson told MailOnline Travel: ‘The winglet of one aircraft appears to have scraped the tail fin of the other. A Ryanair spokesperson said the collision occurred as two planes ‘were taxiing slowly’ to the runway . The Boeing 737 that was preparing to take off for Edinburgh remained on the taxiway for more than an hour . Passengers disembarked and returned to the terminal by bus after the planes collided . ‘Both aircraft were under the instruction of Dublin Airport Air Traffic Control at the time. ‘Customers have been bussed back to the terminal and will board replacement aircraft to continue their journeys to Edinburgh and Zadar. In October a Ryanair jet had its winglet torn off when it collided with another plane belonging to the budget carrier at Dublin Airport. The Boeing 737s heading to Edinburgh and Brussels were taxiing to a runway when they collided in darkness. Passengers’ photos of the aftermath showed the winglet lodged in the rear wing of the plane it crashed into. Last year in June, two Ryanair planes clipped wings – ripping the tip off of one of them – at London Stansted Airport. Customers faces delays of up to three hours after the planes, one bound for Warsaw and one which had just arrived from Frankfurt, collided. Fire trucks surround the Ryanair planes after they collided at Dublin Airport this morning .
Planes were preparing to depart Dublin for Edinburgh and Zadar, Croatia .
Airline said they were under the instruction of air traffic control .
Winglet of one aircraft appears to have scraped the tail fin of the other .
It's the second time in six months two Ryanair planes have collided .