The ExpressJet plane was towed back to the gate, and the Scandinavian Airlines plane taxied back to the gate, where passengers disembarked, New York's WNBC-TV reported.
He pulled his phone out again after the plane remained at the gate, he said.
But in a rather comical turn of events, the second plane never left the gate.
When a plane returns to the gate, the flight has to get in line again for takeoff.
The "confusion" started after the plane remained at the gate for 15 minutes after the door closed, Baldwin wrote.
After security staff realised that they had not boarded the flight to Dulles, they ordered the plane back to the gate and retrieved their luggage.
The plane was parked at the gate when a tractor-trailer backed up and struck it about 4:17 p.m.
The captain then told him to leave the area, and ordered him off the plane before it left the gate.
The Trakdot automatically goes into sleep mode when it hits 100 knots and wakes up when the plane is at the destination gate.
On Monday, a maintenance worker discovered the electrical fire aboard an empty plane being prepared at a gate at Logan for a return trip to Japan.
Then excitement boiled into frustration when the plane sat waiting for an empty gate.
The plane had to return to the gate, where police were waiting to remove her.
People can now check in for a domestic flight from any location, and they simply show their photo ID at the gate as they board the plane.
Alec Baldwin removed from the plane We had to go back to the gate.
The plane landed normally, and passengers returned to the gate, according to Fitzpatrick.
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The bag was searched at the gate, shortly before he was to board the plane.
When we were called to the gate we gave them our boarding passes, got on the plane and fell asleep.
The US Airways plane that was hit was parked in a remote area away from the gate where aircraft are stored overnight.
Two other passengers were removed from the plane "out of an abundance of caution" after it left the gate, a federal law enforcement source said.
When your plane's about to board and you're trying desperately to find which gate your flight was switched to (because the announcement over the public address system was, of course, unintelligible), that's not when you want to be pinching, zooming, and scrolling on your phone.
For example, Southwest Airlines cut the amount of idle time for its planes at the gate by about 50%, which produced a huge fuel savings and dramatically increased plane utilization (one of the highest cost drivers in the airline industry), without negatively impacting service quality.
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