A man stripped to his underwear, jumped a security fence and rammed a pickup truck into a plane at an airport in Nebraska, police said.
Dealario Koonce was arrested after driving the truck into the Southwest Airlines flight at Omaha airport on Thursday evening.
Two crew members were injured in the incident, which happened as passengers were boarding the Denver-bound flight at 9.30pm local time (2.30am GMT).
One of the 18 passengers was also injured when the truck smashed into the plane's nose gear, Omaha Airport Authority Chief of Police Tim Connahan said.
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Koonce, 35, was taken into custody and there was no suggestion the incident was an act of extremism, Connahan said.
He added that 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.
He 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.
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