FedEx plane hits truck; no injuries reported
By THE BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN
A single-engine plane struck a parked truck at the FedEx shipping facility near Meadows Field Thursday morning, prompting an evacuation of a FedEx building.
No one was reported injured in the 7:46 a.m. crash, Kern County Fire spokesman Sean Collins said.
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After a FedEx cargo plane landed at Meadows Field Thursday morning, apparently the brakes went out and the pilot crashed into a FedEx truck near a row of trucks. There were no injuries, according to people on scene. Kern County Fire along with the Meadows Field fire department responded to the incident. FedEx employees evacuated the building they were working in off Airport Drive. The airplane incident happened off Pemberton Way.
The single-engine courier plane hit a parked truck at FedEx’s Airport Drive location, Collins said. The truck was unoccupied and the only person in the plane was the pilot.
FedEx spokesman Chris Stanley said the plane is owned by West Air Incorporated, a contractor with FedEx. There was damage to two FedEx trucks, but no FedEx employees were injured, he said.
The FedEx building was evacuated as a precautionary measure, but employees were soon let back in, Stanley said.
The plane had traveled from Ontario, Calif., he said.
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