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.
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Ay caramba!
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.
“Almost” is subjective. The plane was nowhere close.
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.
It’s not about the runway or the road.
It’s about the fence.
Someone is fencing the plane?
Seriously?? Costa Rica isn't an ISLAND.
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.
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.
good thing costa rica is not an island, it might have tipped over from the turbulence...
Could been hugh....The reporter/editor at the Root aren’t too bright.
Flown into and out of that airport a couple times.
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