LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A truck driver transporting a horse trailer crashed into an airplane Thursday morning at Kentucky’s Blue Grass Airport, authorities said.
The driver was hospitalized and the severity of his injuries weren’t immediately released, news outlets reported.
Airport spokeswoman Amy Caudill said the tractor-trailer hit the side of a Tex Sutton airplane causing the Boeing 727’s wing to go through the truck’s cab.
Caudill said the truck was on the ramp picking up horses that arrived from San Bernardino, California. The airport allows trucks and horse trailers onto the ramp to get horses into the trailer straight from the plane, Caudill said. To her knowledge, the two horses on the truck were fine, Caudill said.
There were three other people in the back of the truck who weren’t injured, Caudill said.
Airport operations weren’t impacted since horse transports occur away from the terminals.
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