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Four planes collided in two separate tarmac crashes hours apart at Logan Airport in Boston this week, WCVB reports.
An American Airlines plane was taxiing to its gate when it clipped the wing of a Frontier Airlines aircraft that was parked nearby.
“That was terrible. It was very scary. All of a sudden, ‘thump.’ It sounded like something fell from below,” said Evelyn Pipione, a Frontier passenger, via WCVB.
Video recorded by Douglas Garcia and shared to Storyful shows the wing of the smaller Frontier aircraft, which was scheduled to depart to Dallas, underneath the wing of the larger American plane, which was returning from London's Heathrow Airport.
“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,” Garcia told WCVB.
Passengers and crew members were removed from both planes while they were being inspected for damage and no injuries were reported in relation to the initial accident. Later that day, a JetBlue airplane being towed collided with a Cape Air plane that had just landed from Nantucket and was awaiting the gate to open, WCVB reported.
Two pilots and three passengers were inside the Cape Air plane at the time while the JetBlue plane was vacant. No injuries were reported in the second crash, however, the two pilots received medical attention at a hospital out of an abundance of caution.