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Passengers were left with long delays to flights this morning after two Ryanair planes collided at Stansted Airport.

The two Boeing planes crashed into each other in the airport's parking area at 6.50am.

Pictures taken by passengers at the scene showed severe damage to the wing tip of one of the planes.

The collision involved a plane which was due to fly to Warsaw and one which had just landed from Frankfurt Hahn.

Police and fire crews were called to the scene with both flights delayed for three hours.

Twitter user Ren, who posted a picture of both aircraft on Twitter, said: "My Ryanair flight just crashed against another plane leaving parking lot at Stansted. Big loud crash. No1's harmed."

Stansted Airport said it was a "minor collision" and there were no injuries to passengers or crew.

As reported by the Independent, Ryanair spokesman Robin Kiely said: “This morning at London Stansted the wing tip and tail cone of two Ryanair aircraft made contact while one aircraft was taxiing to stand and the other was commencing pushback from stand.

“Customers were disembarked and boarded two replacement aircraft which departed Stansted with a delay of approximately three hours.

“Ryanair sincerely apologises to affected customers for any inconvenience.”