Five people were injured when a plane crashed into a bus at Los Angeles International Airport, California, on Friday night.
Officials said that the American Airlines plane was not carrying passengers, knowing that it was an Airbus A321.
The incident occurred while the plane was being pulled down a corridor, hitting a bus transporting passengers from one place to another on the airport grounds, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The Los Angeles Fire Department said five people were injured in a “low-speed collision.”
The five injured are the bus driver and 3 of its passengers, and they were taken to hospital, in addition to a worker who was on board the plane, who received treatment at the scene of the accident.
American Airlines announced that the plane was not operating as a commercial flight when the collision occurred, and there were no passengers on board, while the airport confirmed that other operations remained normal.
Similar events within weeks
In the same context, the Federal Aviation Administration said it would investigate the collision, which comes after a series of unusual incidents at major airports in recent times, most notably:
• On February 4, two planes avoided an imminent collision at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Texas, while one was landing and the other was taking off from the same runway.
• A day earlier, a plane crashed into another parked wing at Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey.
• Last January, a plane was forced to delay take-off after another plane crossed dangerously in front of it, just 300 meters away, at Kennedy International Airport in New York.
