Four planes were involved in two separate collisions in one day at the same major airport. Travel chaos erupted at Boston Logan International Airport after the two incidents, which took place just hours apart on Monday.
Planes were left with broken wings following the crashes, which also saw pilots rushed to hospital. As reported by the Mirror, a smaller Frontier Airlines plane had been due to take passengers to Texas before colliding with an American Airlines jet.
Evelyn Pipione, a Frontier passenger, told local news station WCVB: “That was terrible. It was very scary. All of a sudden, ‘thump.’ It sounded like something fell from below.”
Footage shared online shows the wing of the smaller Frontier aircraft trapped underneath the wing of the larger American Airline plane. Douglas Garcia, who took the footage, told the news station: “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.”
The Frontier Airlines plane was due to set off for Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, while the American Airlines plane had just arrived from Heathrow Airport. Both planes were evacuated with passengers and crew told to leave while the aircrafts 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.
Just hours later 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 jet, which had just landed at Logan from Nantucket, was waiting for a gate to open.
While the JetBlue aircraft was empty there were two pilots and three passengers aboard the Cape Air plane at the time of the collision. The news outlet reported that there were no injuries reported but both of the pilots were taken to hospital as a precaution.
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.
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