Posted on 06/21/2022 6:14:21 PM PDT by texas booster
A plane arriving from Santo Domingo at Miami International Airport caught on fire after it made a crash landing, tearing through a communications tower and a small building.
The Red Air civilian transport aircraft flight 203 made an emergency landing at around 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, after attempting to land at the airport and something went potentially wrong with the landing gear.
About 140 people and 11 crew members were on board the plane.
The plane collided with several objects and steered off the runaway into the grassy area between the runway and the taxi way.
A communications/radar tower that was standing in its path was taken out by the plane, along with a small building in the area. The tower could be seen wrapped around the right wing of the plane, where the fire also ignited.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsvn.com ...
Bang Ding Ow!
Algo mal, translation Sum Ting Wong
The video reminds me of a Joke from 2003. Corporate had brought us the worst turbine component repair I have seen in over 30 years of repairing jet components and wanted to know if we “wanted in” on what they thought was going to double repair yields.
After we told the Corporate hack the repair was terrible and will break low time in service, even showing him where and how it will crack, our Quality Manager piles on with “Ok, OK... we’ll sign on to the repair if there is a post requisite in it to paint the engine cowling Orange so I know not to fly on the plane”
Life imitates Art.
A year later, the repair went into engines, lasted about 500 cycles average before axial cracking (just long enough to fill a Mexican Airline’s fleet) at which point the Mexican airline’s fleet was grounded and every (avg 500 cycle since O/H) engine went back to the O/H shop and all repaired parts removed/thrown away.
-219’s had shysters and husksters trying to screw them up 20 years ago.
I’m am in no way saying this accident was caused by an engine problem. That is just another risk calculation you take when you get on a plane from fleet that two major US airlines sequentially squeezed every last dime out of.
Makes perfect sense.
Thanks.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.