An Alberta mother is raising concerns about how WestJet handled a collision at the Comox airport Wednesday.
She and her family were on a WestJet plane, heading home, when it hit a military aircraft on the taxiway of the Comox Valley Airport.
It turns out the WestJet plane hit a CC-130H Hercules search and rescue aircraft stationed at CFB Comox.
After the incident, Lee-Hiltz says there was a lack of care.
“And me… travelling with two children, you kind of thought you’d get a, ‘Hey, are you good?’” she said. “Not a single person asked, ‘Are you OK? There’s an ambulance over here if you want to get checked out,’ or anything. Nothing. Not a single thing, so I’m disappointed entirely with WestJet.”
In a statement, WestJet called it “a minor incident” and said “all guests and crew were safely offloaded from the aircraft and there have been no reported injuries as a result of this incident…”
“My neck is very sore this morning and so is my husband,” said Hiltz. “He was almost asleep when the plane actually hit, so a big jolt out of nowhere, yeah, that’s not fun on your neck. So both of us feel it’s tight all the way down my neck. I had a headache that felt like if you wear backwards glasses on your head. A headache around the front, all down my neck and across my shoulders.”
Hiltz suspects other passengers may have similar impacts and wonders, if this is how WestJet responds to a ‘minor incident,’ what would happen during something major?
The military says it’s also investigating the incident and is still assessing the damage to their aircraft.