Fender bender at IAH

We're going to share something a little embarrassing about ourselves: We have trouble backing a vehicle up. We can hardly make it out of a driveway without veering off onto the grass — and when it comes to backing out of a garage, forget it. So we can sympathize with the person who accidentally backed a Boeing 737 into another 737 at Bush Intercontinental yesterday.

"The airplane that was moving backed up and the right wing came into contact with the stabilizer" of the stationary plane, said Continental spokesman David Messing. The stabilizer is the horizontal surface of the plane's tail.

Passengers on Flight 1830 left the plane once it returned to the gate. They waited for nearly two hours to switch to another plane. The plane had been scheduled to depart at 7:10 p.m.

The flight was bound for West Palm Beach, Fla.; passengers had to wait nearly two hours for another plane. Both 737s will need repairs and the cause of the crash is under investigation, Messing said. All we can say is, the flight crew should be thankful they didn't have a certain minister's wife on board.