Trump jet clipped parked airplane after touchdown in Florida, FAA says
The airplane of former US president Donald Trump takes off from Palm Seaside Worldwide Airport in West Palm Seaside, Florida, on April 3, 2023.
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The wing of the Boeing jet owned by former President Donald Trump struck a parked airplane at a Florida airport after touchdown safely and taxiing early Sunday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration mentioned on Tuesday.
It’s not recognized if Trump, who had held a campaign rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday, was on his Boeing 757 when its winglet struck the rear elevator of a parked VistaJet in West Palm Seaside.
No accidents had been reported within the collision.
The FAA discover in regards to the incident, which occurred at 1:19 a.m. ET on Sunday, offers the tail variety of Trump’s plane, N757AF.
In a press release, the FAA mentioned, “A privately owned Boeing 757 landed safely at West Palm Seaside Worldwide Airport round 1:20 a.m. native time on Sunday, Could 12.”
“Whereas taxiing, its winglet contacted a parked and unoccupied company jet,” the FAA mentioned. “The incident occurred in an space of the airport the place the FAA doesn’t direct plane. The FAA is investigating.”
A winglet is a brief fin that initiatives upward from the wing of an plane. They’re used to cut back aerodynamic drag.
CNBC has requested remark from a spokesman from Trump’s presidential marketing campaign in regards to the incident.
Trump maintains a residence at his Mar-a-Lago membership in Palm Seaside.
Trump, who’s the presumptive Republican nominee, is on trial in New York state court docket on prison hush cash prices. He has pleaded not responsible within the case, the place he’s charged with falsifying enterprise information.
On Tuesday, Trump’s protection lawyer Todd Blanche started cross-examining Trump’s former private legal professional and fixer Michael Cohen, who’s a key witness within the case
Cohen paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in late 2016 to purchase her silence about an alleged sexual tryst with Trump a decade earlier. Cohen has testified he did so at Trump’s path to stop Daniels from going public along with her story, and damaging Trump’s presidential marketing campaign that yr.
Trump has each denied having had intercourse with Daniels and in taking any half within the payoff. He has claimed the case is politically motivated to hurt his electoral probabilities.
