Passenger plane struck by bullet at Texas airport

A Southwest Airlines formation with passengers onboard was struck by gunfire arsenic it was preparing to instrumentality disconnected astatine Dallas Love Field Airport successful Texas, authorities said.

Flight 2494 was preparing for departure to Indianapolis erstwhile "a slug seemingly struck the close broadside of the craft nether the formation deck", a Southwest spokesperson told the BBC's US partner, CBS News.

No injuries were reported, and the craft returned to its gross and passengers deplaned, according to an airdrome spokesperson.

The home airport's runway was temporarily closed but it has since reopened.

Dallas constabulary is presently starring the probe into the Friday nighttime incident.

Its officers responded to reports of gunfire astatine 21:48 section clip (03:48 GMT connected Saturday) and arrived to find that the level had been struck.

The Federal Aviation Administration said successful a connection that the slug deed adjacent the cockpit of the Boeing 737-800 Max aircraft.

No details person formally been released connected the circumstances surrounding the incident, but section TV presumption WFAA reported that constabulary believed the shooting was a effect of random gunfire.

The outlet confirms 99 radical were aboard the flight.

Southwest has said it volition accommodate each passengers connected different flights.

Earlier this week, 3 planes that were either landing oregon taking disconnected from the main airdrome successful Port-au-Prince, the superior of Haiti, were struck by gunfire arsenic pack unit ravages the Caribbean nation.

Those incidents prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to contented a 30-day prohibition connected US airlines flying to Haiti.