BALTIMORE, Md – A “partial equipment failure” involving a jet bridge at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) in Maryland on Saturday left six people injured. READ MORE: Video of dancing worker at Toronto Pearson International Airport goes viral

The airport tweeted that six people were taken to a hospital Saturday night with non-life-threatening injuries due to the incident at Gate E-10. Southwest Airlines said the flight arrived at BWI from Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, with a request for paramedics to meet it to check out a passenger’s “onboard medical situation.” While medics were helping the passenger outside the aircraft, the airline said the jet bridge “experienced a failure.”

The remaining passengers got off the plane using stairs. Just over an hour later, the airport said the jet bridge won't be reopening until an investigation is completed. Southwest says the airport’s jet bridge, which connects the plane to the terminal, failed while medics were helping the passenger outside the aircraft.
An equipment failure causes a jet bridge at the Baltimore–Washington International Airport to collapse, injuring seven people.