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12-29-2024, 09:51 AM
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Air Canada Flight AC2259 Landing Gear Failure, Kids Off the Runway
Air Canada flight AC2259, operated by a PAL Airlines De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 registered C-GPNA, narrowly escaped disaster at Halifax Stanfield International Airport on December 29. The plane, travelling from St. John’s (YYT) to Halifax (YHZ), experienced a landing gear failure, causing it to skid off the runway. A fire broke out but was quickly contained. Passengers described the plane tilting sharply left and hearing a loud crash as the wing and engine scraped the ground. Fortunately, no major injuries were reported. The airport briefly closed but partially reopened soon after. Officials suspect a bird strike may have caused the landing gear failure. The incident came just hours after a tragic Jeju Air crash in South Korea, which claimed 120 lives. Rescue efforts for both events are ongoing. |
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12-29-2024, 09:55 AM
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Re: Air Canada Flight AC2259 Landing Gear Failure, Kids Off the Runway
A KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 737-800, operating flight KL1204, veered off runway 18 at Oslo Torp Sandefjord Airport during an emergency landing.
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12-29-2024, 01:23 PM
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Re: Air Canada Flight AC2259 Landing Gear Failure, Kids Off the Runway
Full rash of plane mishaps in these last couple of days.   |
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12-29-2024, 11:02 PM
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Re: Air Canada Flight AC2259 Landing Gear Failure, Kids Off the Runway
God bless those passengers who put hysteria aside to video their crash for our entertainment...
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12-31-2024, 03:36 PM
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Re: Air Canada Flight AC2259 Landing Gear Failure, Kids Off the Runway
Dash 8's are a decent & relatively safe aircraft that can take a beating & then some, that is presumably until a bird gets in the way. All I can say is that it must have been a fuckin huge bird to take the landing gear out. A one in a billion event right their folks ! |
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12-31-2024, 11:43 PM
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Re: Air Canada Flight AC2259 Landing Gear Failure, Kids Off the Runway
Dash-8's are REALLY noisy airplanes. I have flown on them many times. They are calmly filming probably because they didn't know they were crashing. You can't hold a conversation on that airplane because they are so noisy from the propellers. "Get out your phone and record! We're crashing!" "What??" "I SAID, GET OUT YOUR PHONE AND RECORD THIS! WE ARE CRASHING!" "WHAT!?!?!?!?" (Big noise and engine shuts down.) (silence) "What were you trying to tell me?" "I was trying to tell you to get your phone out, because we were crashing!" "Oh, I couldn't hear you! I thought you were talking about washing!" "Oh, never mind! It's already over with! Let's get out of here!"  |
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01-01-2025, 09:22 PM
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Re: Air Canada Flight AC2259 Landing Gear Failure, Kids Off the Runway
They might have asked if they could use the runway, and the tower told them "Take Off, eh!" I miss Bob and Doug Makenzie!  |
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01-04-2025, 03:28 PM
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Re: Air Canada Flight AC2259 Landing Gear Failure, Kids Off the Runway
Boeing and its customers going to pay a heavy price for the corner cutting of their ex-board committee for years to come.
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