Two injured after taxiing airplane collides with shuttle bus in Chicago | US News

According to the Chicago Fire Department, an employee shuttle bus collided with American Eagle Flight 6209 as it was taxiing in preparation to takeoff.

A total of six American Airlines employees were taken to Ascension Resurrection Hospital for evaluation. Two were later hospitalized with minor injuries.

No crew members or passengers on board Flight 6209 were injured during the crash, but photos taken from the scene show the nose of the aircraft destroyed.

The aircraft, a Bombardier CRJ-200, typically seats 50 passengers.

Flight 6209 is operated by Air Wisconsin, a regional airline that operates flights under contract with American Airlines.

The flight was scheduled to depart for James M Cox Airport in Dayton, Ohio around 7.00pm that night.

The damaged plane was taken out of commission and passengers on Flight 6209 were directed to a replacement aircraft, which departed for Dayton over 2 and a half hours late.

The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) is investigating the cause of the incident.

The crash comes after several close calls on American runways this year.

In January, air traffic controllers at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York scrambled to action when they realized a taxiing American Airlines flight headed to London Heathrow Airport nearly collided with a Delta jet taking off for the Dominican Republic.

In February, a similar incident happened in at Augstin-Bergstrom International Airport when a Southwest flight almost took off on the same runway a FedEx cargo jet was attempting to land on.

Both disasters were averted after quick thinking by air traffic controllers and pilots. No injuries were reported from either incident.

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