With strict protocols in place, airports around the world are generally efficient at keeping aircraft safe and secure for operations. However, every once in a while, an incident occurs in which airplanes on the ground suffer damage, quite often from the surrounding ground vehicle. And something similar happened to a JetBlue aircraft preparing for a flight recently at Boston airport.
JetBlue aircraft damaged at Boston airport On September 30, a JetBlue aircraft at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) was preparing to depart for Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) when it was damaged by a ground vehicle. According to a report by Boston 25 News , the Embraer E190 plane was readying for its departure for Pittsburgh when a piece of pushback equipment struck the aircraft. Naturally, any physical damage to an aircraft requires a thorough inspection before it can be deemed safe to fly again, so the aircraft was taken out of service.
The plane involved in the incident is an almost 17-year-old Embraer E190 registered N283JB, per ch-aviation . It was scheduled to operate flight B61585 to Pittsburgh with a departure of 06:55. The airline arranged another E190 registered N266JB, which eventually took off after more than two and half hours of delay.
The damage to N283JB was apparently not major, as the aircraft was put back in service and has performed several flights after the incident, according to data from Flightradar24 . Not the first time This isn’t the first time a JetBlue .