"Six people were injured Saturday night at Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport after what the facility called a partial equipment failure involving a jet bridge.
According to the airport, preliminary information indicated that six people were taken by ambulance to hospitals with injuries that were not considered to be life-threatening.
The bridge involved was at Gate E-10, according to the airport.
A jet bridge is the enclosed, movable passageway between the terminal and an aircraft, permitting passengers to board and deplane. It was not immediately known what caused the failure or how much of it was involved.
Southwest Airlines Flight 822 arrived at BWI from Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic at 7:47 p.m. with a request that paramedics meet the flight, the airline said in a statement released late Saturday.
Southwest said it wanted the medical personnel to “assess an onboard medical situation” that took place in flight, involving one passenger.
As medical personnel were assisting the passenger outside the plane, according to the airline, the bridge “experienced a failure.” It was unclear if other passengers were on the bridge at the time.
Remaining passengers left the plane by stairs, Southwest said."