A Corendon Airways Boeing 737 airplane’s entrance tire burst upon touchdown at an airport in southern Turkey on Thursday, the Turkish transport minister mentioned, including there have been no casualties and all 190 passengers and crew have been evacuated.
The entrance touchdown gear strut was broken on the Corendon Airways airplane, arriving from Cologne, Germany, because it landed at Alanya-Gazipasa airport in Antalya, Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu mentioned.
“All our related models have been on the sector and have been on alert. Thank God, there have been no accidents to the 184 passengers and 6 crew,” Uraloglu mentioned on social media platform X, including preliminary evaluations confirmed there was no injury to the runway, which was briefly closed.
On Wednesday, Turkish authorities launched an investigation right into a FedEx Airways Boeing 767 cargo airplane touchdown at Istanbul Airport with out its entrance touchdown gear.
After Thursday’s incident, flights have been diverted to the principle Antalya airport and different close by airports, the minister mentioned. Corendon mentioned in an announcement the airplane halted safely on the runway after the tire burst.
Specialists say burst tyres on touchdown are comparatively widespread and usually require minor repairs, however can set off a seek for tyre particles or in some instances a passenger evacuation.
The airplane concerned, which has six wheels, is completely different from the bigger 767 which made an emergency touchdown with out its entrance touchdown gear on Wednesday.
First uploaded on: 09-05-2024 at 19:29 IST
