Incident: Frontier A20N at Colorado Springs on Oct 28th 2019, overran runway on landing
| By Simon Hradecky, created Tuesday, Oct 29th 2019 00:01Z, last updated Tuesday, Oct 29th 2019 00:01Z
A Frontier Airbus A320-200N, registration N304FR performing flight F9-2822 from Phoenix,AZ to Colorado Springs,CO (USA), landed on Colorado Springs' runway 17L but overran the end of the runway and came to a stop with all gear on the paved surface of the runway end safety area about 40 meters past the end of the runway. There were no injuries and no damage.
The runway was closed for two hours until the aircraft had been towed to the apron. |
Incident: SAS A333 at Copenhagen on Oct 28th 2019, bird strike
| By Simon Hradecky, created Tuesday, Oct 29th 2019 18:29Z, last updated Tuesday, Oct 29th 2019 18:29Z
A SAS Scandinavian Airlines Airbus A330-300, registration SE-REH performing flight SK-943 from Copenhagen (Denmark) to Chicago O'Hare,IL (USA), departed Copenhagen's runway 22R when the aircraft received a bird strike. In the absence of abnormal indications the crew continued the climb. The aircraft was enroute at FL320 about 230nm northwest of Copenhagen when the crew decided to turn around and return to Copenhagen. The aircraft landed safely back on Copenhagen's runway 22L about one hour after the decisition to turn around.
Passengers reported the crew indicated the aircraft had flown through a flock of geese. The airline reported the aircraft received a bird strike on departure, for safety reasons the crew decided to return. The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Copenhagen about 25 hours after landing back. |
Incident: Jetblue A320 at Long Beach on Oct 29th 2019, hydraulic problem
| By Simon Hradecky, created Tuesday, Oct 29th 2019 22:53Z, last updated Tuesday, Oct 29th 2019 23:36Z
A Jetblue Airbus A320-200, registration N509JB performing flight B6-280 from Long Beach,CA to Las Vegas,NV (USA) with 93 people on board, was in the initial climb out of Long Beach's runway 30 when the crew reported a hydraulic pressure problem and decided to divert to Los Angeles,CA (USA). The aircraft landed safely on Los Angeles' runway 25L about 35 minutes after departure.
A ground observer at Long Beach reported seeing what appeared to be smoke from the left main wheel well, definitely not the #1 engine (V2527), just after takeoff. When the left main gear door closed the smoke disappeared. |
