Hard Landing at Odesa Airport: Plane's Front Landing Gear Breaks Off
No injuries have been reported so far.
A passenger plane from Turkey made a hard landing at Odesa airport after its front landing gear broke off upon touching the runway, BBC reports.
Odesa International Airport said that “at 20:55 on November 21, flight TK467 operated by Turkish Airlines, travelling from Istanbul to Odesa, broke its front landing gear strut during touchdown on the runway amid strong crosswinds.” No injuries among the 136 passengers have been reported, but an investigation into the causes of the incident has begun after their evacuation.
Passengers were urgently evacuated using inflatable slides. Due to strong winds, the pilots could not land the plane on the first attempt, so they went around for a second approach, and then held in the holding area for 10 minutes. The runway is in good condition, so the plane itself is to blame for what happened.
This was not the only incident at Odesa airport on Thursday. A few hours before the hard landing of the Turkish plane, one of the front wheels of another Turkish charter flight operating the Odesa–Dubai route burst during takeoff from the same airport. No injuries were reported in that case either, but the airport suspended flights for several hours.
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