Four planes were involved in two separate collisions at Boston Logan International Airport on Monday before Thanksgiving, causing confusion for some travelers kicking off the holiday week.
The first collision occurred at around noon on Nov. 25 when an American Airlines flight that had just arrived from London Heathrow Airport and was pulling into its gate when it clipped the wing tip of a parked Frontier plane, American Airlines said in a statement to PEOPLE.
There were no reported injuries as a result of the incident, the airline said, adding that the aircraft involved has been removed from service so it can be inspected.
Frontier Airlines told PEOPLE in a statement that 200 passengers were on board at the time but none reported injuries.
Ozzy Palchik, a Frontier passenger, told local outlet WCVB that, “It was like a bump, kind of. Then we were just waiting and the pilot said that there was an incident with the plane next to us.”
NBC Boston reported that the Frontier plane was supposed to fly to Dallas but that everyone onboard had to be rebooked after the aircraft sustained damage.
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“All of a sudden we just felt this… I didn’t know what it was,” passenger April O’Brien told the outlet. “I’m like, ‘What’s that?’ and then all of a sudden, I looked out the window, it was right outside my window. The American Airlines went right into our wing,”
The Federal Aviation Administration says it is investigating the collision as well as another that occurred at the same airport a few hours later.
At 6:15 p.m., a JetBlue plane was being towed when the towing vehicle struck the back of a Cape Air plane that was waiting to park at a gate, the Massachusetts Port Authority said.
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The Massachusetts Port Authority says both incidents were minor and occurred at low rates of speed.
“It was an absolute mess, there were lights everywhere,” Caroline Agid, a passenger who was supposed to board the JetBlue flight, told WCVB.
The outlet further reported that the scheduled JetBlue flight, bound for Orlando, was delayed for hours as a result.
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