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    The towed JetBlue plane hits another plane at Boston Logan Airport

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    U.S. Department of Transportation officials are investigating after federal authorities said a JetBlue plane under tow crashed into the back of a Cape Air jet at Boston Logan International Airport Monday evening.

    The incident was the second at the airport involving two commercial aircraft on the same day.

    The Cape Air plane took off from Nantucket Memorial Airport in Massachusetts at 5:35 p.m. and landed in Boston at 6:14 p.m., according to FlightAware, a site that tracks flight routes.

    The impact occurred around 6:15 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told USA TODAY Tuesday morning.

    “While being towed, a JetBlue Airbus A321 struck the rear of Cape Air Flight 617, a Tecnam P2012,” Rick Breitenfeldt, an FAA spokesman, told USA TODAY.

    At the time of the crash, the Cape Air plane was waiting to park at an airport, the FAA spokesman said.

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    Two Cape Air pilots taken to hospital

    According to a statement obtained by USA TODAY from JetBlue, a tugboat towing an empty JetBlue plane “made contact with a Cape Air aircraft” at the airport.

    There were no injuries among JetBlue crew members.

    The JetBlue tug was removed from service and the JetBlue aircraft “will undergo a thorough inspection,” the airline told USA TODAY on Tuesday.

    Cape Air said three passengers and two crew members were aboard the Cape Air flight from Nantucket to Boston, CBS News reported, but no one was injured on board.

    But the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), which manages and owns Boston Logan, told the outlet that two Cape Air pilots had been taken to the hospital as a precaution.

    USA TODAY has contacted Massport and Cape Air.

    The FAA is investigating the crash.

    The crash occurs on the same day that two other planes clipped Boston Logan’s wings

    The incident occurred on the same day that two other commercial aircraft clipped their wings on the tarmac of the same airport.

    American Airlines Flight 109 severed the tip of a wing from a Frontier Airlines plane in Terminal E, aviation officials said. A spokesperson for Frontier Airlines told USA TODAY that their flight was headed to Dallas.

    The American Airlines flight arrived in Boston from London’s Heathrow Airport and made “contact” with the parked Frontier plane as it entered the gate.

    Both airlines said there were no injuries.

    Contributions: Fernando Cervantes Jr.

    Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at [email protected] and follow her at X @nataliealund.

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