One passenger was killed and several people were injured after the top of a tour bus entering Miami International Airport smashed into an overpass at the Miami International Airport’s arrivals entrance Saturday morning.
The accident brought traffic in and out of the airport to a halt and authorities scrambled to rescue passengers trapped inside the large white bus, which was carrying between 30 and 35 people. The identity of the dead passenger was not relased as of 10:30 a.m. but authorities were still trying to remove one passenger who was sitting near the driver’s seat, which was crushed.
Authorities did not confirm if that was the dead passenger.
Those who were hurt suffered "major injuries," said Greg Chin, a spokesman for the aviation department. It was not immediately known what company the bus belonged to. There is no visible label on the bus.
About a dozen fire trucks and six ambulances blocked the airport entrance, and traffic entering the airport was delayed by about 30 to 40 minutes.
People arriving from their flights were peeking from their windows to get a view of the scene. On the first floor, in arrivals, a crashed white bus with the top missing over the driver’s seat was parked. Shattered glass covered the floor.
The back side emergency door was missing and a bus chair was on the ground, as well as luggage, which had been packed into the lower level of the bus.
"You would think the driver should have know his bus was too high," Susan Lillis said, flying in from Baltimore. "You would think he would have been here before."
Mike Barber, who was running late to his flight to Los Angeles with American Airlines, said: "There are worse things than losing a flight."
This article will be updated as more information becomes available.
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