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Plane Collides With Airport Vehicle
Oct 28, 2004 11:30 pm US/Eastern
PHILADELPHIA (KYW) A commercial airliner apparently collided Wednesday with an airport support vehicle while taxiing to a runway at Philadelphia International Airport. Now, the Federal Aviation Administration is conducting its own investigation into the incident.
CBS 3’s Walt Hunter reports with more flights being added at the airport, it’s not just the skies that are becoming crowded.
Investigators say that a US Airways Express plane with 41 passengers aboard bound for Montreal, Canada, collided with a Ford Explorer support vehicle while making its way toward the runway for takeoff.
Hunter has learned the plane’s wing slashed through the vehicle and injured its driver, Wilbur Smith: “All of a sudden, bam…I got hit. No warning, just bam. When I saw the plane, you know I really could not believe a plane had just hit me. I’m in a yellow vehicle, with yellow lights flashing and you hit me? How?”
“It not only caused substantial damage to the vehicle but it dragged the vehicle about 30 feet,” said Philadelphia Police Inspector Bill Calarulo.
Fortunately the passengers aboard the plane in addition to four crew members were not hurt. However, Smith was hospitalized with minor injuries: “The way that wing hit the car…if it would have kept on going instead of pushing me forward, I don’t think I would be sitting here right now because that wing would have come all the way to where I was at and kept on going and I would have probably been halfway decapitated or something.”
Officials confirm that the vehicle was apparently parked in the grass median near the taxi-way when the plane struck it.
FAA officials are now looking into the crash and quote: “We are investigating the cause of damage to the right wing of the aircraft. All passengers were evacuated as a precaution.”
Although there is no word yet on what caused the accident, Hunter says the passengers aboard the plane were put on another aircraft bound for their final destination.
In addition, there has been no confirmation as to whether or not regulations regarding both aircraft and support vehicles on the tarmac will be changed.
As for Smith, he has since been released from the hospital but still suffers from neck and back pains. He plans to return to work on Monday.
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