Heading out to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl grew to become a little bit of an journey for a 98.5 The Sports Hub exec when the aircraft she was on clipped one other plane at Boston Logan International Airport.
Mary Menna, Beasley Media Group Boston VP and market supervisor, was on JetBlue Flight 777 early Thursday morning when out of nowhere, there was a commotion.
“The plane had been deicing for a while, and it’s 6 a.m., so people are dozing off. And all of a sudden, there was this boom,” Menna instructed the Herald a number of hours after the incident on Thursday.
“It was jolting,” she added. “Some people were like, ‘Ah!’ The woman next to me gasped.”
Shortly thereafter, the passengers on the jam-packed aircraft came upon what had occurred on the deicing pad on the tarmac.
JetBlue Flight 777’s left winglet had struck the appropriate horizontal stabilizer on JetBlue Flight 551, in accordance with the Federal Aviation Administration. The aircraft’s wing was broken.
“Nobody got hurt thankfully,” Menna mentioned.
Jennifer Mehigan of Massport mentioned in an announcement that the planes “made contact while in the de-icing area” and referred to as the collision “very minor.” The FAA is investigating the incident.
The passengers obtained off the aircrafts, and Menna’s flight to Las Vegas was delayed from 6 a.m. till about 11:30 a.m. She landed in Las Vegas at about 2 p.m. native time.
“The airline handled it really,” Menna mentioned.
Brian O’Neil, who was additionally flying to the Super Bowl, mentioned his aircraft was following a car to the de-icing areas when he observed it was “super close” to a different aircraft parked within the space.
“After we passed, we felt a bump and the captain came over the loudspeaker to say we had just clipped the other plane,” mentioned O’Neil, who later boarded a brand new flight to Las Vegas. “To me, it felt like we ran something over.”
JetBlue confirmed the incident and mentioned the flights to Las Vegas and Orlando would function on different plane, whereas each planes are out of service for repairs.
The airline mentioned in an announcement, “Safety is JetBlue’s priority, and we will work to determine how and why this incident occurred.”
Herald wire companies have been used on this report.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”