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A JetBlue plane tipped backwards, its front wheel off the ground, while passengers were getting off at JFK

Oct 24, 2023, 19:48 IST
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A JetBlue Airways jet comes in for a landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York City in January 2023.REUTERS/Mike Segar
  • A JetBlue plane tilted back with its nose in the air as passengers got off, the airline said.
  • A passenger said it tilted when around half the passengers were off, and its tail hit the ground.
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A JetBlue plane tipped backwards, with its nose in the air and its front wheel off the ground, after landing at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

JetBlue said in a statement to Insider that the plane landed as scheduled. Then, when it was at the gate and passengers were getting off, "due to a shift in weight and balance during deplaning, the tail of the aircraft tipped backward causing the nose of the aircraft to lift up and eventually return back down the plane tilted back."

JetBlue said that no injuries were reported.

The plane titled back around 30 degrees, according to the Associated Press.

Footage shared on social media shows the plane, attached to the gangway, with its nose and wheel in the air.

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One TikToker, Sinead Bovell, was on the plane and filmed inside the cabin during the incident. Her video shows a flight attendant instructing people to move around inside, seemingly hoping to restore its balance.

She tells them: "Very slowly, little by little, move towards the middle of the airplane, cause apparently everything is, like, it tipped up."

Describing the incident the next day, Bovell said: "I was seated maybe three quarters the way back into the plane."

She said the incident started when just over half the passengers on the plane had got off. At that stage, "the plane abruptly tipped backwards so quickly and so intensely that the tail of the plane hit the pavement of the jet bridge and part of the plane door broke."

She said passengers had to "physically rebalance" the plane by moving around — and that she walked closer to the front as part of that.

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She said they had to "strategically exit the plane two rows at a time, take a break. Two rows at a time, take a break."

No one was exiting the plane when it tipped, she said, "thank goodness."

The affected plane was Flight 662 that had landed in New York from Bridgetown, Barbados, on Sunday night, JetBlue said.

"Safety is JetBlue's first priority; we are reviewing this incident, and the aircraft has been taken out of service for inspection," the airline added.

The body that oversees the airport, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, told CNN that the wider functioning of the airport was not disrupted.

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