Disney’s Magic Kingdom ferry crashes into dock amid stormy weather, passengers say: ‘completely chaotic’

The Brief

  • Disney’s General Joe Potter ferry, which transports people between Magic Kingdom and the Transportation & Ticket Center, hit the dock on Wednesday night amid storms, officials and passengers told FOX 35.
  • Photos and videos shared with FOX 35 showed first responders tending to several people off the boat, while another video showed a stretcher being wheeled onto the boat.
  • “It was so sudden and it was chaotic, completely chaotic afterwards. Passengers were helping passengers get up, checking on people, making sure that everybody was okay,” one person told FOX 35.

ORLANDO, Fla. It appears that multiple people were tended to or treated by paramedics after one of Walt Disney World’s ferry boats seemingly docked hard at Disney’s Transportation & Ticket Center, according to the fire departments who responded, as well as photos shared with FOX 35 Orlando.

Ferry boats are one of the ways that people can get between Disney’s Transportation & Ticket Center (TTC for short) and Disney’s Magic Kingdom theme park, and vice versa. There is also Disney’s bus system and the Monorail.

On Wednesday night, it appears that one of Disney’s ferry boats hit the dock harder than usual while docking at Disney’s TTC.

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