Last Monday Logan Airport (BOS/KBOS) in Boston was the site of two separate tarmac collisions involving four airplanes.
The first incident occurred when an American Airlines aircraft, while taxiing to its gate, clipped the wing of a nearby parked Frontier Airlines plane. American Airlines flight AA109, a Boeing 777-223ER, was pulling into the gate at Boston-Logan International Airport, after arriving from London (LHR/EGGR) when the right-hand wing struck the left-hand winglet a parked Frontier Airlines Airbus A321-271NX. The A321neo was preparing for departure as Flight 3601 heading to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW/KDFW).
"It was terrible and very scary. Suddenly, there was a 'thump'—it sounded like something had fallen from below," Frontier passenger Evelyn Pipione told the media. Douglas Garcia captured video footage showing the wing of the smaller Frontier plane, which was set to depart for Dallas, wedged beneath the wing of the larger American plane coming in from London's Heathrow Airport.
"You can see the wing is actually broken at the bottom. The bigger plane's wing is over it, and ours is cracked at the bottom," Garcia explained to reporters. Both planes' passengers and crew were evacuated for inspections, with no injuries reported from the initial incident.
Then later in the day, a JetBlue aircraft being towed struck a Cape Airplane that had just arrived from Nantucket and was waiting for the gate to open, according to airport officials. The Cape Air aircraft had two pilots and three passengers on board, while the JetBlue aircraft was empty. Although no injuries were reported from the second collision, the two pilots were taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure. The Cape Air aircraft was a Tecnam P2012 Traveller.
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