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Video Shows 'Too Close for Comfort' Costa Rica Landing of Iberia Plane
The Root ^ | 08 Oct 2015

Posted on 10/08/2015 3:29:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Footage captured a Spanish aircraft flying nail-bitingly close to cars as it came into land at Costa Rica’s Juan Santamaría airport on Sunday.

The video, taken by Carlos Rojas and uploaded onto Youtube, shows Iberia flight 6313 from Madrid coming into land at the Central American country's airport.

But as the Airbus A 340 approaches landing it appears to come dangerously close to cars parked at the end of the runway and misses the airport perimeter fence by just a few meters.

The landing provoked a flurry of comments on social media from local residents about the “narrowly averted disaster” with the island’s Tico Times reporting:

"Several residents in Heredia and Alajuela reported the aircraft shook their homes upon descent. One Facebook commenter said flight 6313 was so low, she could “see the screws” on the bottom of the plane."

But far from being an isolated event, authorities at the airport insisted it was a routine landing and followed all regulations.

"Sure it could have been a little bit higher, but the altitude and angle of the plane was fine," explained Rolando Richmond, head of Costa Rica’s Aerial Navigation Office,

The video has been viewed ,more than 100,000 times since being uploaded on Sunday.


TOPICS: Local News; Travel
KEYWORDS: airplane; costarica; iberia; madrid; sanjose; sanjosecostarica; spain

1 posted on 10/08/2015 3:29:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SkyDancer

Ping


2 posted on 10/08/2015 3:29:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Ay caramba!


3 posted on 10/08/2015 3:34:48 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: nickcarraway

I flew out of the Santamaria Tuesday morning. Didn’t hear about this video till just now but probably wouldn’t have worried if I had.


4 posted on 10/08/2015 3:38:52 PM PDT by stormhill
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To: nickcarraway

“Almost” is subjective. The plane was nowhere close.


5 posted on 10/08/2015 3:39:11 PM PDT by sagar
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To: nickcarraway

Some of these Central American/Caribbean runways are short and one must use every last foot of them. Sounds to me like the captain new where he was going.


6 posted on 10/08/2015 3:45:17 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s not about the runway or the road.

It’s about the fence.


7 posted on 10/08/2015 3:54:09 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

Someone is fencing the plane?


8 posted on 10/08/2015 3:57:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
...with the island’s Tico Times reporting:

Seriously?? Costa Rica isn't an ISLAND.

9 posted on 10/08/2015 3:58:03 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: nickcarraway
reminds me of when I was stationed at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. My quarters were on one side of the runway and my office on the other side. I would ride my bicycle around the perimeter road to get to and from work. The F-4s would be awfully close to the ground as they crossed the perimeter road. I soon learned that if the plane was on the downwind leg I could make it around the end of the runway before the plane got on the glide slope, but if the plane was already on the cross-wind leg, I'd better hold up and let it land.
10 posted on 10/08/2015 5:04:47 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon)
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To: JoeFromSidney

The perimeter road on Maxwell AFB used to have a traffic light so no one was supposed to drive in the approach area when a plane was landing. The stop light was controlled by the ATC in the tower.


11 posted on 10/08/2015 5:15:04 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: nickcarraway

Note the shadows of the two cars, and no similar shadow from the airplane. This says to me that the airplane is actually much further away than it seems in the picture. The airplane is likely on the downside of the hill in the picture, and much higher than it seems in the picture.


12 posted on 10/08/2015 5:30:12 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: Drango

good thing costa rica is not an island, it might have tipped over from the turbulence...


13 posted on 10/08/2015 5:38:52 PM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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To: rolling_stone

Could been hugh....The reporter/editor at the Root aren’t too bright.


14 posted on 10/08/2015 5:43:37 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: stormhill

Flown into and out of that airport a couple times.


15 posted on 10/08/2015 5:47:37 PM PDT by ImaGraftedBranch (If you haven't figured it out, there is a great falling away...happening before your eyes.)
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