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Air Canada A320 crashes at Halifax Airport

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  • #2
    Long Time Lurker
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    Power lines so close to the end of a runway just ain't a good idea are they!


  • #3
    imurdaddy
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    Long Time Lurker wrote: »
    Power lines so close to the end of a runway just ain't a good idea are they!

    Describing that as a hard landing is a bit of a understatement! There isn't a straight panel left on her!!


  • #4
    ProfessorPlum
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    imurdaddy wrote: »
    Describing that as a hard landing is a bit of a understatement! There isn't a straight panel left on her!!

    It was a hard landing - about 250m short of the runway.

    From avherald:
    An Air Canada Airbus A320-200, registration C-FTJP performing flight AC-624 (dep Mar 28th) from Toronto,ON to Halifax,NS (Canada) with 133 passengers and 5 crew, was on approach to Halifax's runway 05 at about 00:07L (03:07Z) when the aircraft touched down short of and below the runway threshold, clipped a powerline and approach light about 250 meters short of the runway, climbed the embankment up to the runway level and came to a stop past the threshold of the runway near taxiway B about 300 meters down the runway. The aircraft was evacuated. 23 people received injuries and were taken to a hospital, the aircraft sustained substantial damage (all landing gear collapsed, left hand engine separated, wing damaged, horizontal stabilizer damaged).


  • #5
    imurdaddy
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    ProfessorPlum wrote: »
    It was a hard landing - about 250m short of the runway.

    From avherald:
    An Air Canada Airbus A320-200, registration C-FTJP performing flight AC-624 (dep Mar 28th) from Toronto,ON to Halifax,NS (Canada) with 133 passengers and 5 crew, was on approach to Halifax's runway 05 at about 00:07L (03:07Z) when the aircraft touched down short of and below the runway threshold, clipped a powerline and approach light about 250 meters short of the runway, climbed the embankment up to the runway level and came to a stop past the threshold of the runway near taxiway B about 300 meters down the runway. The aircraft was evacuated. 23 people received injuries and were taken to a hospital, the aircraft sustained substantial damage (all landing gear collapsed, left hand engine separated, wing damaged, horizontal stabilizer damaged).

    Ah I thought he made the runway! Crew and pax Very lucky to walk away from that one!


  • #6
    sjb25
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    Jesus it's in bits very lucky all round


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