Last month went on a rampage with their aircraft clipping two planes and a truck within 24 hours.
Back in May United and American were blaming each other after their planes collided on the ground in Austin.
This time, though, American will have no one to blame but themselves for clipping a plane on landing at Washington’s National airport. Two American planes came into contact after “the wingtip of one plane clipped the back of the other.”
Video shot by 7News reporter Walter Morris, who’s flight had landed at the time of the collision, shows the wingtip was left dangling in the air after the incident.
“It was shocking because we were sitting there, and everyone was looking around like, ‘Did that just happen?’ And then I looked over, and I saw a piece of the airplane wing on the tarmac and another piece just dangling,” said Morris.
The flight from Miami to DC arrived on time, however the same aircraft same flight number had been scheduled to return to Miami and that had to be cancelled.
American Airlines Flight #AA1533 from #MIA to #DCA crashes into another plane on moments after landing @wsvn @ABC7News #AmericanAirlines pic.twitter.com/v9WBsRFwnK
— Walter Morris (@waltermorris) September 30, 2017
#AA1533 Passengers asked to stay seated as investigators arrive. No serious injuries @AmericanAir @wsvn @ABC7News #Crash #DCA #MIA pic.twitter.com/PqLYJXTYCC
— Walter Morris (@waltermorris) September 30, 2017
The other aircraft had just arrived from Dallas and had been scheduled to return. That flight had to be cancelled as well.
(HT: @brettmeadors)
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