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Kip Powick

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NEWARK, New Jersey (CNN) -- Two commercial planes bumped into each other Tuesday on a Newark International Airport runway, according to Lufthansa, which owns one of the planes.

Lufthansa flight LH403, headed to Frankfurt, Germany, bumped into another plane, said Lufthansa spokeswoman Jennifer Urbaniak.

A wing on the Lufthansa Boeing 747 was damaged, she said. The airline was getting the 294 passengers off the plane, she said.

No injuries were reported. It was unclear how many people were on the second plane

UPDATE ****

The second plane was an empty Continental Airlines Boeing 757, which was being relocated to a remote overnight parking spot "and was in a stationary position" when the contact occurred, the airline said in a statement.

It "was apparently brushed by a taxiing Lufthansa 747 aircraft," Continental said. "It appears that the 747's left wing brushed the 757's right wing."

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