FAA Investigating Donald Trump's 2nd Boeing 757 Wing Clip Incident – Forbes
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – MARCH 31: The Trump Organization’s Boeing 757 used by former U.S. President … [+]
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a wing-clip incident at West Palm Beach International Airport which occurred on May 12, involving former president Donald Trump’s Boeing
“A privately owned Boeing 757 landed safely at West Palm Beach International Airport around 1:20 a.m. local time on Sunday, May 12,” the FAA stated.
At the request of Donald Trump, details of his private fights are not published by flight tracking sites. However, the Aviation Safety Foundation’s incident record shows the flight took off from Atlantic City International Airport in New Jersey.
“While taxiing, its winglet contacted a parked and unoccupied corporate jet,” the FAA stated. “The incident occurred in an area of the airport where the FAA does not direct aircraft. The FAA is investigating.”
The aircraft involved is N757AF, registered to DJT Operations I LLC, a Donald Trump company. The number is visible in white on dark blue on the tail side of the aircraft which the former president has nicknamed Trump Force One.
According to the FAA’s incident report, the Boeing 757 winglet struck a corporate jet owned by VistaJet. There were no reported injuries, though the extent of the damage to either aircraft is unknown.
The Aviation Safety Foundation record shows the presidential candidate’s plane also had an unfortunate wing accident with a different corporate jet in November of 2018. In this case, Trump’s plane was parked and a taxiing Bombardier Global Express jet hit the Boeing 757’s winglet.
While there were also no injuries reported, the Global Express flew to a Bombardier service centre in Hartford, Connecticut for repairs instead of completing a planned trans-Atlantic flight.
According to Planespotters data, The aircraft has been in and out of service over the past 30 years and changed hands. It was first delivered to Danish operator Sterling Airways in 1991 and withdrawn from use by the carrier in September of 1993.
It re-entered service, following a transfer of registration with Mexico’s TAESA Lineas Aereas in July of 1994 on lease from Lonella Ltd.
In 1995, Vulcan Northwest acquired the aircraft, re-registered under its present tail-number. Vulcan reconfigured the plane as a VIP aircraft. It remained with Vulcan Northwest until it was transferred to Vulcan Aircraft in 2003 and ultimately to Donald Trump in August of 2010.
The former President has not kept the aircraft flying constantly, putting it in storage on 2019. Trump Force One most recently returned to service on October 19, 2022.
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