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Two crew members
suffered minor injuries on the Southwest Airlines flight, bound
for Denver, as passengers were boarding at 9:30 p.m. local time
(0230 GMT) when the man drove the truck into the plane's nose
gear, said Omaha Airport Authority Chief of Police.
One of the 18 passengers on board the flight was also injured in
the incident, the airline said in a statement.
The unidentified man was taken into custody and there was no
suggestion the incident was an act of extremism, Connahan said.
He said airport security personnel had noticed a man "acting in
a bizarre manner" near the perimeter of the airport. The man
then stripped down to his boxer shorts, climbed over a fence and
ran onto an airport runway as officers gave chase.
The man then jumped into a parked truck, which had its engine
running, and drove it into the nose gear of the plane he was
apprehended by police, Connahan said.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by Paul
Tait)
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