An already busy holiday travel day became even more chaotic when two separate planes collided just hours apart at Boston Logan International Airport on Monday.
In the first accident, an American Airlines jet that was taxiing to its gate collided with the wing of a parked Frontier Airlines plane, the local ABC affiliate station WCVB reported.
“That was horrible. It was very scary. Suddenly, ‘thump.’ It looked like something had fallen through,” Frontier passenger Evelyn Pipione told the news station.
Video obtained by Storyful shows the broken wing of the smaller Frontier plane beneath the wing of the larger American plane.
“So, you can see the wing is actually broken off at the bottom, so the big plane – the wing is over, and then our wing is broken off at the bottom,” Douglas Garcia, who took the footage, told WCVB.
The American Airlines flight had just arrived from London’s Heathrow Airport while the Frontier flight was scheduled to take off from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
Passengers and crew members were removed from both planes so damage to the planes could be inspected, and a Frontier flight to Texas was canceled — just three days before Thanksgiving, the station reported, citing Massport.
According to Massport, there were no reports of injuries on either plane.
A few hours later, a JetBlue airplane, being towed by a vehicle, collided with a Cape Air plane that had landed at Logan from Nantucket and was waiting for the gate to open, the local station reported.
The Cape Air plane had two pilots and three passengers on board, while the JetBlue plane was empty. According to the outlet, no injuries were reported, but both pilots were taken to the hospital out of an abundance of caution.
“There were just red lights everywhere,” Caroline Agid said. informed the police station“It looks like the front part of the Cape Air plane is broken. It was a chaotic mess.”
Egid was scheduled to board the JetBlue aircraft involved for the flight to Orlando. His flight was eventually delayed by three hours after JetBlue found another plane to accommodate the passengers.
The FAA and various airlines are investigating the two collisions.
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