Former US President Donald Trump’s Boeing 757 collided with another corporate jet while taxiing at West Palm Beach International Airport in Florida on Sunday, a person familiar with the incident said on Tuesday.
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that a privately owned 757 made contact with a parked corporate jet with an empty seat at a South Florida airport.
The FAA statement did not identify the plane as Trump’s.
The agency said the incident occurred in an area of the airport where the FAA does not direct aircraft, adding that it is under investigation.
The Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
President Trump held a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday. The incident occurred around 1:20 a.m. Sunday after the plane landed at West Palm Beach Airport.
President Trump’s 757 is a staple of presidential campaign rallies at airports, and at a rally in Ohio in March, a voice chanted, “Trump Force One, cleared to land.”
President Trump purchased a Boeing 757 for $100 million in 2010, and the heavily customized plane features gold-plated accents, two private cabins, three bathrooms, a dining and meeting area, and an extensive entertainment system. contained. This plane was manufactured in his 1991 year.
In January, President Trump urged Boeing to resume production of the 757, which it stopped producing in 2004. “Boeing should bring back the 757, the most beautiful and most maneuverable (from a pilot’s point of view!) Boeing has ever built,” he said on social media. media.
