Aircraft emergency at Miami International Airport
A 126-person plane caught fire when its landing gear crashed on the runway at Miami International Airport on Tuesday.
The dramatic incident occurred when a Red Air flight arrived from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, said Miami-Dade Aviation Department spokesman Greg Chin.
Three people were slightly injured and taken to hospital for treatment, while the remaining passengers were taken by bus from the scene of the accident to the terminal.
The plane was arriving from Santo Domingo at around 5.30pm when the incident took place.
It looked like it had stopped near a grassy area next to the track.
Some flights were delayed due to the fire, airport officials said.
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Pregnant woman among the injured
A total of seven people, including a pregnant woman, were injured Tuesday during a sudden landing that caused a plane to catch fire at Miami International Airport, the airline confirmed on Wednesday.
According to a RED Air spokesman, five people have been discharged from the hospital and two more remained hospitalized on Wednesday morning, including the pregnant woman, although they are expected to be discharged during the day.
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Miami mayor reports “tire breakage” and landing gear “destroyed”
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava was briefed by fire and rescue personnel after arriving at the scene of the crash.
“It looks like a tire exploded, and then it went back up and down again, and the landing was so hard that the whole landing gear was destroyed and the belly of the plane is on the ground.” , Cava told the media while confirming that three people were injured in the accident.
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A Miami airport passenger posts a video passing a wrecked plane
Twitter user @findmory posted a video of Miami-Dade firefighters’ response to the Red Air flight landing from the Dominican Republic as their own flight passed the wreckage.
A lot of damage can be seen to the nose of the plane from where it crashed into the runway after the landing gear collapsed.
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What is the McDonnell Douglas MD-80, the plane that crashed in Miami on Tuesday?
At around 6 a.m. on Tuesday, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 that had taken off from the Dominican Republic, the base of the newly founded airline RED Air, caught fire when its undercarriage crashed in the runway at Miami International Airport.
The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is a medium-sized, medium-sized jet aircraft and is manufactured by McDonnell Douglas. Since its launch in 1979, it has been used by dozens of airlines around the world, with major customers including Delta Air Lines, Spirit Airlines, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines and Swissair.
American Airlines was the first major American company to use the aircraft and began leasing 20 of the 142-seat aircraft to McDonnell Douglas in 1982. In the early 2000s, the airline announced that it would withdraw all of its MD- 80 and would replace them. with the most fuel-efficient Boeing 737-800s. The last American Airlines MD-80 flight flew on September 4, 2019.
As of May 2022, there were 148 MD-80 series aircraft in service, with operators such as USA Jet Airlines, which has a total of 18 airliners, and Canadian Airways Congo, which has two of the aircraft in service, among a number of other carriers with smaller fleets.
According to the Aviation Safety Network, the database has documented 88 incidents of accidents with the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 since 1979, with 1,446 fatalities.
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RED Air mechanic describes a “shocking” landing.
A 36-year-old RED Air mechanic interviewed by the Miami Herald gave his first impressions of the plane’s landing Tuesday night, which he describes as a “hard landing.”
Hector Dejesus, an airline employee and former Dominican military aviation mechanic, told a Florida company reporter for the first time that he thought there might be a pilot error on landing.
“I guess it was a hard landing. We do maintenance all the time. I guess that was it,” he told the Miami Herald. “I’m in shock. I’d see things like this in the Air Force.”
The National Transportation Safety Board is conducting an investigation into the crash, which told reporters it will send a team of investigators to the scene of the incident on Wednesday.
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The passenger on board the crashed flight describes a “terrifying” scene.
A passenger aboard RED Air Flight 203 when it crashed at Miami International Airport described a “terrifying” scene on the local Miami Herald news channel.
“People were very scared,” said Mauricio Davis, who was returning from Venezuela and took a connecting flight from Santo Domingo to Miami.
“People were grabbing seats so as not to turn around,” he added, noting that when the 126 passengers traveling on board realized there was a fire, they started screaming in panic.
Read more about the Miami Herald here.
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Look, the passenger on Red Air Flight 203 is sharing pictures of his escape
One of the passengers traveling aboard Santo Domingo’s Red Air Flight 203 in Miami filmed the frightening moments on Tuesday afternoon before he and other passengers made an emergency exit down the plane’s evacuation slide.
Paolo Delgado, who shared images of his cell phone with John-Carlos Estrada of CBS Austin, can be seen fleeing the plane as he listens to the passengers in front and behind him trying to get off. smoking plane.
While Mr. Thin down the emergency slide, you can see a column of black smoke coming out of the plane from which it escaped a few seconds ago.
The images show that some passengers had stopped to pick up their luggage, including wheeled suitcases, before leaving the plane, contrary to the rules on evacuation in case of emergency.
Watch the full clip below:
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Red Air: one of the newest airlines in the region
Red Air is one of the newest airlines in the region. The Dominican Republic-based company launched in the fall of 2021, seeking to challenge other low-cost airlines by offering relatively affordable flights between the United States and the Caribbean.
Abe Asher takes a look at the new airline in the region’s aviation industry.
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Red Air statement on the accident
Red Air issued the following statement following Tuesday’s crash.
RED Air informs the public that today, Tuesday, June 21, at 5.45 pm, flight L5-203, which covered the route between the cities of Santo Domingo and Miami, has presented technical difficulties after landing in the airport, Miami International Airport (MIA).
We inform you that the 130 passengers and 10 crew members were evacuated and treated in accordance with the established protocols and the due process applicable to these cases has been completed.
Commissions from the Dominican Institute of Civil Aeronautics, along with local authorities in the city of Miami, have begun relevant investigations to determine the circumstances of the incident.
At RED Air we express our absolute solidarity with the passengers and crew of the aircraft.
Red Air
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ICYMI: The video shows terrified passengers fleeing after the crash
Shortly before 5:40 p.m. Tuesday, a Red Air flight arriving from the Dominican Republic had a crash on the landing gear on arrival, and sent a 126-person plane sliding down the runway back to the MIA .
The boat caught fire quickly, sending ordinary passengers from the landed jet, which was arriving from Santo Domingo. Some were filmed walking away from the wreck, while others stopped to film the crash with their phones.
Many were seen carrying the plane’s luggage on fire when emergency crews arrived.
Josh Marcus reports details:
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