An airport van collides with a parked Shandong Airlines Boeing 737-800 at Xiamen airport, Fujian province, Nov 11, 2011. [Photo/chinanews.com]

A Shandong Airlines van collided with a parked plane at Xiamen airport early Friday, causing the aircraft to be grounded for repairs but no injuries, Xinhua News Agency reported.

The incident happened at 7:24 am, when the van belonging to Shandong Airlines Xiamen branch hit the forward landing gear door of the carrier's Boeing 737-800 in the tarmac.

There were no passengers onboard the aircraft when the collision occurred and no one was injured, Xinhua said in its report.

The plane, which was due to carry flight CA1802 (CA is the IATA code of Air China and the company has codeshare agreement with Shandong Airlines), was scheduled to fly to Beijing at 8:15 am. The flight was canceled, and most of its passengers were put on other flights.

A picture posted on the website of China News Service shows that the right side of the van was seriously damaged in the collision, while the nose gear of the jet was pushed to the right by the hit.

The cause of the incident is still under investigation, Xinhua said.