There have been no accidents after a Southwest flight sporting passengers was once struck via gunfire at the tarmac of Dallas Love Box Friday evening, government stated. Southwest Airways Flight 2494 was once making ready for departure to Indianapolis when “a bullet it sounds as if struck the proper aspect of the plane below the flight deck,” a Southwest spokesperson instructed CBS Information in a observation. The airline stated no person was once harm. A spokesperson for Dallas Love Box stated in an e-mail that the plane returned to its gate after maintaining harm from a “safety incident” and the passengers deplaned. The runway was once additionally quickly closed, however has since reopened.
Dallas police showed the incident, pronouncing that officials replied to reviews of gunfire at 9:48 p.m. native time, arriving to search out that the plane have been struck. No additional main points had been supplied at the cases of the incident or what was once the possible supply of the gunfire. It is unclear what number of people had been aboard the jet on the time, or how a lot harm the plane sustained.
In its personal observation supplied to CBS Information, the Federal Aviation Management stated that the Boeing 737-800 “was once reportedly struck via gunfire close to the cockpit.” Dallas police are main the investigation into the incident. Previous this week, gunfire amid ongoing gang violence struck 3 planes that had been both touchdown or departing Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince. The shootings precipitated the FAA to factor a 30-day ban on U.S. airways flying to Haiti.
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Faris Tanyos
Faris Tanyos is a information editor for CBSNews.com, the place he writes and edits tales and tracks breaking information. He in the past labored as a virtual information manufacturer at a number of native information stations up and down the West Coast.
