Friday, November 29, 2024 - Chaotic scenes unfolded at a major airport after four planes were involved in two separate collisions on the same day.
Travel chaos erupted at Boston Logan
International Airport on Monday, Nov. 25, after the two incidents, which
took place hours apart, saw planes with broken wings and pilots sent to
hospital.
The first of the two crashes saw
an American Airlines jet that was taxiing to a gate clip the wing of
a parked plane belonging to Frontier Airlines.
Terrified passengers on the smaller
Frontier Airlines plane, which had been due to take them to Texas, recalled the
terrifying collision.
“That was terrible. It was very scary. All
of a sudden, ‘thump.’ It sounded like something fell from below,” Evelyn
Pipione, a Frontier passenger, told local news station WCVB.
A video posted online shows the wing of the
smaller Frontier Airlines plane trapped underneath the wing of the larger
American Airline jet, as passengers said the collision had caused serious
damage.
“So, you can see the wing actually broke on
the bottom, so the bigger plane — the wing is over, and then ours is cracked at
the bottom,” Douglas Garcia, who took the footage, told the news station.
The American Airlines plane had just
arrived from Heathrow Airport while the Frontier Airlines plane was due to set
off for Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.
Both planes were evacuated with passengers
and crew forced to leave while the aircraft were inspected for damage. The
Texas-bound flight was cancelled, with the travel disruption taking place just
three days before Thanksgiving. There were no injuries reported on either
plane.
A few hours later at the same airport a
JetBlue passenger plane crashed into a Cape Air plane at the same airport. The
JetBlue aircraft was being towed behind a vehicle while the Cape Air plane that
had just landed at Logan from Nantucket and was waiting for a gate to
open.
While the JetBlue plane was empty there
were two pilots and three passengers aboard the Cape Air plane at the time of
the collision.
There were no injuries reported but both of
the pilots were taken to hospital, out of an abundance of caution, the news
outlet reported.
Passenger Caroline Agid had been supposed
to board the JetBlue flight to Orlando, Florida, and saw the two planes
collide.
“It [was] just red lights everywhere,” she
told the station.
“It looks like the front top of the Cape Air plane got smushed. It was a
chaotic mess.”
The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) and the airlines concerned are looking
into the incidents.
American Airlines 777 and Frontier Airlines A321 collide on the ground at Logan International Airport in Boston. pic.twitter.com/tzOMkv0GSY
— MP (@Mp220Mp) November 27, 2024
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