According to a notice from the Federal Aviation Administration, former President Donald Trump's Boeing 757 "clipped" an unoccupied private jet Sunday while taxiing after landing at West Palm Beach International Airport.
"AIRCRAFT TAXIING AND WINGLET STRUCK THE REAR ELEVATOR OF A PARKED VISTAJET," the notice reads, as cited by WFLA (emphasis original).
The outlet noted that the FAA included the plane's registration number, N757AF, which FAA records show belonging to DJT Operations I LLC.
The report indicated that any damage that might have occurred in the incident was as yet unknown, but that no one had been injured.
Also unknown was whether the former president himself was on his 757 at the time of the incident, but the FAA told the station that it was still investigating.
"A privately owned Boeing 757 landed safely at West Palm Beach International Airport around 1:20 a.m. local time on Sunday, May 12," an FAA spokesperson told WFLA in a statement. "While taxiing, its winglet contacted a parked and unoccupied corporate jet.
"The incident occurred in an area of the airport where the FAA does not direct aircraft," the statement added.
The news came out Tuesday amid what the Trump campaign must have seen as more positive reports of the former president's polling ahead of November's presidential election.
CNN, for example, Trump is leading President Joe Biden in three battleground states by such wide margins that a CNN analyst called the numbers "an absolute disaster" for Biden's campaign.
CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said the latest polls showed Trump beating the president in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada, and within the margin of error of polls conducted in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
"Frankly, for the Joe Biden campaign, these numbers are an absolute disaster," Enten said Monday. "The smallest lead is in Arizona for Donald Trump. He's up 6. Look at this, 9 in Georgia."
The New York Times/Siena College polls of 4,097 registered voters were conducted in the six battleground states from April 28 to May 9. (The Philadelphia Inquirer contributed to the Pennsylvania poll, the Times noted.)
The Nevada survey had the presumptive GOP nominee over Biden by 13 points.
The CNN reporter noted that Trump's smaller leads in Pennsylvania (3 points) and Wisconsin (1 point) were within the margin of error.
However, Biden's 1-point lead in Michigan was also within striking range for Trump.
"My goodness gracious. ... That is a huge lead," Enten said. "No Democrat has lost that state since [former Sen.] John Kerry lost it back in 2004."
