Travelers at Boston Logan International Airport were met with chaos and disruption on Monday, November 25, 2024, after two separate collisions involving four planes occurred within hours of each other. The incidents left passengers shaken, pilots hospitalized, and multiple flights disrupted, just days before the Thanksgiving holiday.
The first incident occurred when an American Airlines jet, which had just arrived from Heathrow Airport, clipped the wing of a parked Frontier Airlines plane while taxiing to its gate. The Frontier aircraft was scheduled to depart for Dallas Fort Worth International Airport before the crash rendered it inoperable.
“That was terrible. It was very scary. All of a sudden, ‘thump.’ It sounded like something fell from below,” said Evelyn Pipione, a passenger on the Frontier flight, in an interview with WCVB.
Douglas Garcia, another passenger, captured video footage of the aftermath, which showed the wing of the Frontier plane trapped beneath the larger American Airlines jet.
“You can see the wing actually broke on the bottom,” Garcia explained. “The bigger plane’s wing is over ours, and then ours is cracked at the bottom.”
Both planes were evacuated as emergency teams inspected the damage. Fortunately, no injuries were reported among passengers or crew. However, the Texas-bound Frontier flight was canceled, leaving frustrated travelers stranded.
Just hours later, a second collision occurred at the same airport. A JetBlue aircraft being towed by a ground vehicle struck a Cape Air plane that had just landed from Nantucket and was waiting for a gate to open.
Unlike the first collision, the JetBlue plane was empty at the time, but the Cape Air aircraft had two pilots and three passengers onboard. Although there were no reported injuries, both pilots were taken to a hospital as a precautionary measure.
Passenger Caroline Agid, who had been waiting to board the JetBlue flight to Orlando, witnessed the aftermath of the collision.
“It was just red lights everywhere,” Agid told WCVB. “It looks like the front top of the Cape Air plane got smushed. It was a chaotic mess.”
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), alongside the involved airlines, is investigating both incidents.
