An already busy travel day for the Thanksgiving period in the USA was further complicated by two separate plane crashes, which occurred a few hours apart on the runway of Boston Logan International Airport on Monday 25 November.
The first of two incidents occurred in Boston
Monday 25 November, theBoston’s General Logan Airport He had a particularly difficult day. Two distinct accidents between airliners, which occurred a few hours apart, generated moments of panic at the Massachusetts international airport.
The first accident involved a jet American Airlines during the taxiing phase towards the gate when it hit the wing of a plane Frontier Airlines ready to take off for Texas. The passengers on board experienced moments of fear: “It was terriblereally scary. Suddenly we heard a thud, like an explosionsomething falling from above,” Evelyn, a passenger on the Frontier, told local broadcaster WCVB.
A video released online shows the wing of the Frontier Airlines plane stuck under that of the American Airlines jet. “As you can see, the wing of the larger jet is damaged, while ours is cracked in the lower part,” explained Douglas Garcia, author of the images.
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The American Airlines plane had just arrived from London-Heathrow, while the Frontier Airlines flight, bound for Dallas Fort Worth, was cancelled. Both aircraft were evacuated, but fortunately no one was injured.
A few hours later, a second accident involved a passenger plane JetBluewhich collided with an aircraft of the Cape Air. The first was towed by a vehicle, while the Cape Air one, which had just landed from Nantucket, was waiting for a gate to open. On board the latter there were two pilots and three passengers. Even in this case there were no injuriesalthough both pilots were transported to hospital “as a precaution,” WCVB reported.
Caroline Agid, who was supposed to board the JetBlue flight to Orlando, witnessed the collision. “There were red lights everywhere. The top of the Cape Air plane looked crushed. It was really chaos,” he said.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the companies involved have initiated investigations to clarify the causes of accidents.
