2 jets on the ground at Newark Liberty International Airport come into contact

There was a scare at Newark Liberty International Airport Tuesday when two planes made contact on the ground. 

The incident forced both planes back to the gate. There were no injuries. 

It happened just after 10 a.m. when a Singapore Airlines jet pushed back from Terminal B, clipping the tail of a Spirit Airlines plane that was parked nearby for deicing. 

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said no one was hurt, but hundreds of travelers found themselves going nowhere. 

"The pilot came on after 20 minutes. The pilot came on, told us something happened. We didn't know what and then we saw the strike, and then we knew this was a problem," passenger Sree Sreenivasan said. 

The FAA said the incident happened in an area where air traffic control does not direct aircraft movements. 

Passengers deplaned both jets normally. The Spirit aircraft was taken out of service for inspection. Singapore Airlines inspected its jet and cleared it to fly, rescheduling the long-haul flight to Singapore for 4 p.m. 

"There's a kind of irony there that the world's longest flight is about to become longer over something that happened in the first one minute as we pulled out," Sreenivasan said. "There's already so much tension, and this just adds to that. So anyone who's afraid of flying will just be more worried." 

Both airlines said safety is their top priority. 

The FAA is investigating.