Boston Logan International Airport witnessed a day of chaos as two separate plane collisions occurred, involving four aircraft in total.
The first incident involved an American Airlines jet that clipped the wing of a parked Frontier Airlines plane while taxiing to a gate.
This collision resulted in significant damage and led to the cancellation of a Texas-bound flight. Evelyn Pipione, a passenger on the Frontier Airlines plane, described the moment as terrifying: “That was terrible. It was very scary. All of a sudden, ‘thump.’ It sounded like something fell from below.”
A few hours later, another collision took place at the same airport. A JetBlue passenger plane, being towed behind a vehicle, crashed into a Cape Air plane that had just landed from Nantucket and was waiting for a gate.
Although the JetBlue plane was empty, the Cape Air plane carried two pilots and three passengers. Both pilots were taken to the hospital as a precaution, though no injuries were reported.
Passenger Caroline Agid, who was supposed to board the JetBlue flight to Orlando, recounted the scene: “It was just red lights everywhere. 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 involved are investigating these incidents to understand how they occurred and to prevent future occurrences.
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