Chaotic scenes have 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 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 clip 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.
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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.
