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United States - 18 passengers injured at Dulles Airport when transport vehicle slams into dock
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Event date (UTC)
2025-11-11 08:25:45
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2025-11-11 08:25:45
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Dulles International Airport, Dulles, Loudoun County, Virginia
At least 18 passengers were injured when a transport vehicle slammed into a dock at a Washington DC area airport on Monday.
The Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority confirmed to WTOP that a mobile lounge - or 'people mover' - which are used to board and offload international passengers from an aircraft struck Concourse D at Dulles International Airport 'at an angle' as it was pulling up to the building at around 4.30pm.
Passengers then got off the people-mover using the stairs and were evacuated by the airport's medical personnel.
Eighteen people were transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries in the aftermath, officials announced.
It remains unclear how the accident occurred or whether there was any structural damage to airport property.
But authorities say the airport remains open and operational.
It is equipped with 19 mobile lounges that were built in the 1960s, according to its website.
Each is 54 feet long and 16 feet wide, and can carry up to 102 passengers, though only about 50 people were onboard the vehicle at the time, according to the Washington Examiner.