Medium Transport; Low Wing; 2 Turbojet Eng
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Ground Event / Encounter Aircraft
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; General Flight Cancelled / Delayed
Aircraft; Human Factors
In line for takeoff on Taxiway X holding short of intersection XY when we felt a jolt to the aircraft. We then noticed an aircraft (same make and model as ours) taxiing around to our right. I realize that we had been hit by them and notified Tower. Their left winglet hit our right elevator.
I had just sat down in the FWD jumpseat; when a loud thump was heard and the FWD part of the cabin shifted quite a bit. I had seen everyone looking out the right window and beginning to talk and point. At that point I received a call from the B Flight Attendant [who] asked; 'What Happened?' I had replied with; 'I don't know; what's everyone is looking at?' She began to get out of her jumpseat to look out the window as to what everyone else was looking at and then called me back and said that there was a piece of either our plane or someone else's plane and immediately called the flight deck. The flight deck responded that they are on the phone and will get back to us soon and hung up. I then went on the PA and instructed everyone to remain seated with their seat belts securely fastened until we instructed otherwise. I then got out of my jump seat to look at my neck because it had started to throb in pain. As I looked in the mirror I had seen that it was raw from a sort of burn from the seat belt. I had then walked to the AFT Galley with the B Flight Attendant to show her my injury and told her it was quite a thump up front. At that moment the flight deck had called us; it was our Captain; he told us that we were hit by a plane on the right wing and asked if everyone was okay and what do we see from our view? We responded that no one seems to be notifying us that they were injured and that I just had a burn on my neck. We then told him we noticed a part of our wing on the [taxiway]. He responded he will keep us in touch and to take care of the cabin. We had continued to hear updates from the flight deck on the PA as to what was happening. [An hour later we started] a water service in the cabin to help [allay] anxieties as to what was going on. Finally we headed back to the gate to deplane the passengers and re-group.
Two flight crews and two flight attendants describe a collision during taxi; with the left wingtip of a medium size twin engine jet contacting the right horizontal stabilizer of a stationary aircraft of same make and model.