Former US President Donald Trump’s plane takes off from Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida on April 3, 2023.
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The wing of former President Donald Trump’s Boeing jet hit a parked plane at a Florida airport after it landed safely and taxied early Sunday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday.
It is not known whether Trump, who held a campaign rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday, was in his Boeing 757 when its winglet struck the tailplane of a parked VistaJet in West Palm Beach.
No injuries were reported in the collision.
The FAA report on the incident, which occurred at 1:19 a.m. ET Sunday, lists the tail number of Trump’s plane, N757AF.
An FAA statement said: “A private Boeing 757 landed safely at West Palm Beach International Airport at approximately 1:20 a.m. local time on Sunday, May 12.”
“While taxiing, his winglet contacted a parked and unoccupied business jet,” the FAA said. “The incident occurred in an area of the airport where the FAA does not operate aircraft. The FAA is investigating.”
A winglet is a short fin that extends upward from the wing of an aircraft. They serve to reduce air resistance.
CNBC has reached out to a spokesperson for Trump’s presidential campaign for comment on the incident.
Trump maintains a residence at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach.
Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, is facing criminal hush-money charges in New York state court. He pleaded not guilty to the case in which he was accused of falsifying business records.
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