A picture of passengers in the car after the emergency landing in
Aalborg Airport, Denmark, September 9th, 2007
In Copenhagen, Denmark, during the emergency landing, a Scandinavian airlines turboprop carrying 73passengers. The plane caught on fire as it was landing on a runway in a cloud of smoke and dust. Fortunately, only 5passengers suffered minor injuries.
The plane had departed from Copenhagen’s international airport for the short flight to Aalborg airport in western Denmark. This plane, Q400 turboprop, collapsed its right landing gear during the touchdown in Sunday at the Aalborg airport. This plane was still in SAS Monday, blocking the traffic. Scandinavian airlines decided to drop all of the flights to Aalborg because the “spare” runway wasn’t big enough for its planes.
While the plane was flying up in the sky, the pilot informed the control tower because he noticed that the landing gear had a problem. He then dumped out the fuels and made the emergency landing. Ternert blamed on the airline and the aircraft maker named “Bombardier” for the problem with the landing gear.
The TV footage from public broadcasters showed the collapsing while the touchdown (the right landing gear). When the plane’s right landing gear collapsed, it tilted to the right and its wing got hit to the ground making the aircraft spinning on the runway. While this disaster, one of its propeller broke loose and cut through the cabins. Luckily, it did not hit any of the passengers.
The firefighters quickly put out a fire right after the plane landed. They put out a fire before the 69passengers evacuated form the plane and only five of the passengers got a minor injury.
Scandinavian Airlines, or also known as SAS, is the joint flag carrier of Norway, Denmark or Sweden. After this crash, fifteen of the European flights to and from Copenhagen were also cancelled because of the accident.
In my opinion, I think that the pilot tried his best to protect the passengers and that he should be awarded for this because the pilot made a smart decision on dumping out all of its fuels. If there are loads of fuels in the tank, the wires, sparks and fuels would make an explosion. I think that the airlines and the “airplane examiners” were not responsible for their work. Next time, they should concentrate more on checking what is wrong with it. Also, I think that the passengers and pilots are lucky that no one died and only few had minor injuries.
aricle from: http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/254917
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