A Swiss Air jet, accelerating on takeoff, slammed the brakes on Tuesday night on Runway 22R at Logan Airport, startling passengers who had a jarring begin to their Zurich journey.
“We were not quite lifting off and the wheels were still on the ground when the pilot immediately hit the brakes,” a passenger within the Boston-to-Zurich flight advised the Herald this morning.
“We heard a ‘boom,’ and after that is when stuff went flying,” the passenger added. “Fire engines then came racing by.”
The Airbus A330-300 taxied again to the gate at Logan Worldwide Airport at about 6:30 p.m., and after a 3-hour wait, a brand new jet was able to proceed the journey.
“We were told it had something to do with the engine,” the passenger added from abroad.
In keeping with Boston’s NBC 10 (see video), the Federal Aviation Administration mentioned the Swiss Worldwide Air Strains flight was disabled on Runway 22R.
“The crew of SWISS Flight 55 stopped their takeoff at Boston Logan International Airport due to engine issues around 6:25 p.m. local time on Tuesday, Sept. 16. The FAA briefly paused some arrivals to the airport before the plane taxied off the runway,” the company mentioned in a press release. “The FAA will investigate.”
The passenger known as the Herald final night time and once more this morning to report that the sudden cease was jarring however dealt with easily.
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