If you happen to’re a seasoned traveler, you would possibly suppose you’ve got seen all of it relating to flying – however your airplane flipping backwards and balancing on its rear wheels as you land is usually a new expertise.
That is precisely what occurred at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport on Sunday when a JetBlue airplane tilted backwards, elevating the airplane’s nostril into the air as passengers disembarked, the airline confirmed.
“As soon as on the gate, because of weight and steadiness modifications throughout deplaning, the tail of the plane flipped again, inflicting the nostril of the plane to carry and ultimately come again down,” JetBlue mentioned CNN in an announcement.
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Video footage of the incident reveals the second the huge plane was thrown off steadiness – with the doorways on the entrance of the airplane showing to fly open.
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The flight landed at round 20:30 on its approach again from Bridgetown, Barbados to Terminal 5 of the airport.
JetBlue mentioned it was trying into the incident and that the plane in query had been “taken out of service for inspection”. Nobody was injured on account of the incident.
Final month, eight passengers had been hospitalized on a JetBlue flight from Ecuador to Florida because of extreme turbulence, and that plane was taken out of service for inspection.
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The airline was down over 43% 12 months over 12 months on Tuesday afternoon.