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Jetway collapses at Baltimore-Washington International Airport

A jetway collapsed at Baltimore-Washington International Airpo♓rt on Saturday night, sending passengers hurtling to the grou🎐nd and injuring six.

The injured had been exiting a plane via the༺ jetway — the enclosed passageway connecting an airport gate and their plane. They were taken to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.

passengers on the plane sa⛄ying a woman had fallen ill on the Southwest Airlines flight 🎐from Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.

The🎉y said the jetway collapsed as medics were escorting her off.

“As they got her, she’s 𒁃walking out, we heard this incredibly loud bang, it wasꦍ just deafening. And then the thing crashed,’’ passenger William Yerman told the station.

Michelle Yerman said, “It was very scary that it collap🍨sed with people on it, and th𒈔ey took a big spill onto the concrete.”

The rest of🐈 the passengers used the plane’s staircase to exit.