Aircraft damaged during incident at Logan; passengers forced to sleep on cots

BOSTON — Dozens of passengers on an Azores Airlines flight were forced to sleep on cots at Logan after the aircraft was damaged during an incident on the tarmac Tuesday night.

Massport officials said no injuries were reported when the incident between the aircraft and piece of ground equipment occurred.

"We got on the plane and there was a jolt, a pretty good jolt," passenger Rick Bills said. "I never felt a jolt like we felt. We weren't sure what happened, but apparently there was some sort of malfunction with the equipment underneath the plane, is what we're hearing. Whether the plane collided with a piece of equipment or if the equipment attached on the plane and they were towing it out of the bay, something happened and they haven't communicated to us what it was."

Passengers tell Boston 25 News that the airline sent text messages informing them of their new flights, but no other information has been communicated to them.

No other information about the incident has been released.

Boston 25 News is working to gather more information and will bring you new details on-air and online as soon as we get them.

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