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Aeropostal DC-9 Hard Landing Nearly Tears Off Engines
An Aeropostal DC-9 with 125 passengers and five crew made an emergency landing in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela after a partial rupture of its two engines. According to The Aviation Herald, the engines' pylons and support structures cracked at the airframe due to the hard landing. There were no reported injuries of passengers or crew. A commenter on Airlines.net Aviation Forums said, "You would think the landing gear would collapse before the engines got ripped off the fuselage..."… (www.huffingtonpost.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Hahahaha Robert, Well played sir!
Very Old Airframe DC-9-50(36 yr old) + poor maintenance = perfect recipe for disaster. Heard that pilots lost power aproaching to land that leads the hard landing.Seems that a corroded and cracked engines pylons and airframe parts leads the engines got riped. Venezuela have the largest fleet of oldest planes like DC-9 and B737-200 on service with very poor maintanence ,in less a week thta was 5 accidents or incidents in that country for mechanical failures related a B737 and DC-9..it is ironic that a country with a lot of money have the worst fleets in Southamerica.
I have never seen such a failure. I suspect someone in the maintenance organization is going to catch hell. Looks like someone did not put all the parts back they way they should have or truly inspect the mounts. Odd that the #2 engine's thrust reverser appears deployed. I do not think you have cracks on both sides and they fail at the same time. Appears to be a DC9-50.
Way to go DC-9! Made another safe landing! And held together!
There's a reason my Venezuelan friends caringly call it AeroMortale.
Reminds me of the 1987 hard landing of an Eastern Air Lines DC-9 in Pensacola...the fuselage just behind the wings separated at every attachment point except the bottom, and was dragged down the runway.