Although it reportedly struck a truck on the tarmac Sunday afternoon, a Southwest jet aircraft was able to take off for Atlanta as planned.
According to Southwest officials, Flight 1717 was backing up along the Orlando International Airport tarmac when the right wing of the aircraft hit a provisioning truck.
The plane was scheduled to take off at 5:20 p.m., as stated on the flight tracking site FlightAware.
Though no one reported an injury from the incident, the "very light contact" caused about an hour delay to Atlanta for the 143 passengers and five crew members aboard, said Southwest spokesperson Chris Mainz.
Flight 1717 was unable to take off until 6:50 p.m., according to FlightAware, which put the plane's arrival at Hartsfield-Jackson International at 8:02 p.m. instead of 6:32 p.m.
"Our maintenance crew did a thorough inspection of the impact areas and found no damage," Mainz stated in an email.
According to Mainz, neither the aircraft or truck sustained damage.
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