Caught On Camera: Car Slams Into Private Jet In Milan

Published Aug 11, 2026, 8:39 AM EDT A graduate in German, Jake has a passion for history and regional aviation, and enjoys sampling new carriers and aircraft. He has visited OEM facilities as far and wide as Bristol, Toulouse, and Seattle, and recently enjoyed the milestone of flying his 150th sector as a passenger. Based in Norfolk, UK. Dramatic footage has emerged online of a ground handling car colliding with a private jet at Milan Linate Airport (LIN) in the north of Italy yesterday morning. CCTV footage of the incident shows the Fiat Panda cutting across the path of the Hawker Beechcraft 400A, with the jet's nose then coming into contact with the side of the vehicle and penetrating a window on, thankfully, not the driver's side of the car. Despite the visually alarming nature of the incident, there were not reported to have been any injuries as a result of the spectacular collision. With that being said, there were some operational knock-on effects, with multiple inbound flights having to divert to other airports in the wider Milan area as a result. This pause allowed airport authorities to focus on inspecting the car and aircraft and secure the scene. A Manic Monday In Milan Credit: Shutterstock According to reporting on the matter by The Aviation Safety Network, the incident took place yesterday morning (Monday, August 10, 2026) at around 11:19 AM. The Hawker Beechcraft 400A private jet that found itself on the end of the collision with the Fiat Panda ground handling car is said to have borne the registration I-AERB. According to Flightradar24, it is 33 years old and flown by Slam Lavori Aerei​​​​​​. As seen in the dramatic video footage above, the car cut across the front of the private jet as it was taxiing, with its nose coming into contact with the passenger-side front window. Luckily, no injuries were reported as a result of the collision, although both the car and the jet sustained considerable damage as a result. Aviation News EU quoted a spokesperson for Milan Linate Airport as having said that: "Airport emergency services responded immediately to inspect the aircraft and secure the apron, allowing normal flight operations to resume safely with minimal delay to passengers." Two Inbound Flights Had To Divert To Other Airports In The Milan Area In the immediate aftermath of the, as it is being described, low-speed collision, operations at Milan Linate Airport were briefly put on hold as the relevant authorities secured the scene and performed the necessary inspections. Once all of the required safety checks had been undertaken, operations were able to resume after a pause of around 30 minutes. By this time, however, two diversions had occurred. As seen in the map above, one of them involved an inbound KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) in the Netherlands. Per Flightradar24, KLM flight KL1615 was due to land at Milan Linate Airport at 12:00 PM, but had to instead divert to nearby Malpensa (MXP), where it touched down at 11:58 AM. After Linate reopened, it took off again at 1:08 PM, landing in Linate at 1:29 PM. The other inbound flight to meet this fate was a domestic service, namely ITA Airways flight AZ2036 from Rome Fiumicino Airport (FCO). This service's scheduled arrival time was 11:40 AM, but it instead touched down in nearby Bergamo (BGY) at 11:56 AM. After just over an hour on the ground, it was able to resume its journey at 1:05 PM, and it reached Linate just 13 minutes later, touching down at 1:18 PM. Ground Vehicles Are An Important Part Of The Wider Airport Ecosystem Credit: Shutterstock Ground handling vehicles such as the Fiat Panda that collided with the Hawker Beechcraft 400A at Milan Linate Airport yesterday morning play an essential role in keeping such hubs, and their planes and passengers, moving. While blessed with far better acceleration and handling than aircraft, these vehicles' movements are also strictly regulated by air traffic control in order to reduce the chances of a crash. Unfortunately, as yesterday's incident evidenced, this system is not 100% bulletproof, and it is not the first time that an aircraft has collided with a ground vehicle at an airport this year either. Indeed, in March of this year, two Air Canada pilots sadly lost their lives when their Bombardier CRJ900 regional twinjet collided with a fire truck crossing the runway after landing at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in New York.