Plane damaged after ‘crashing into a FENCE at Gatwick Airport’
Norwegian Air Dreamliner with up to 300 passengers on board is damaged after ‘crashing into a FENCE at Gatwick Airport’
- A 787 Dreamliner aircraft smashed into a fence at Gatwick airport today
A huge 787 aircraft crashed into a fence at Gatwick Airport today.
Passengers reported that ground crews manoeuvring the large 300-person craft around the Sussex airport pushed it so far back it hit a perimeter fence.
The Norwegian Air aircraft was pushed into the noise mitigation barrier and passengers took to social media to share photographs of fire crews rushing to the scene.
One passenger wrote on Twitter, writing: ‘Tug pushes Norwegian 787 dreamliner back to far that it hits part of Gatwick Airport perimeter fence.
‘Fire crews on precorsionary [sic] standby.’
One passenger shared a photograph of fire crews rushing to the scene after the 787 dreamliner hit a perimeter fence at Gatwick
The aircraft was reportedly being manoeuvred around the Sussex airport by ground crews
A spokesperson for the airline said: ‘We can confirm that one of our aircraft sustained some damage upon pushback on today’s flight DI7017 from London Gatwick to New York JFK.
‘All passengers disembarked the aircraft as normal and are currently being assisted by our ground staff in the terminal.
‘The safety and wellbeing of our customers is our top priority and we are currently making arrangements to put passengers on a replacement aircraft that will depart this afternoon.
‘We would like to apologise to our customers for the inconvenience.’
It comes after plane debris reportedly rained ‘like bullets’ from the sky over Rome as a fragments fell off a Norwegian airlines plane.
Meanwhile passengers of British Airways were left furious when an IT problem delayed 300 flights and 15,000 holidaymakers last week.
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