Southwest Airlines confirmed it is investigating an incident involving two of its planes at Rhode Island’s largest airport.
The carrier announced the investigation after a passenger claimed a jet clipped a parked plane while taxiing out of T.F. Green International Airport in Warwick, RI, on Thursday evening.
“My flight was delayed like 6 hours and then they hit a PARKED plane trying to leave,” the passenger claimed on X.
Southwest Airlines didn’t specify how the two planes made contact, but said it was “aware of an incident involving two of our aircraft.”
“We are investigating further and will be thoroughly inspecting the two aircraft,” a spokesperson for the carrier told The Post. “In the meantime, we have reaccommodated the affected Customers. Nothing is more important to Southwest Airlines than the Safety of our Employees and our Customers.”
One of the planes involved was due to leave Providence at 4:25 p.m. Thursday ahead of a flight to Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, DC, according to aviation account FL360Aero.
T.F. Green Airport handles over four million passengers each year.