A DHL cargo aircraft crash-landed at the Juan Santamaria International Airport in Costa Rica on 7 April. The Boeing 757-200 was en route to Guatemala but experienced a hydraulic system failure, reports The Guardian, leading to an emergency landing minutes after the plane took off at the same airport.
DHL said no one on board was injured. The incident caused a significant delay in other commercial flights, but the airport was reopened after five hours.
Video footage shows the plane landing and swerving out of control, then breaking apart. Response services immediately rushed to the scene with fire extinguishing equipment.
Take a look.
A much clearer version of the crash landing has emerged!
Source: Unknown#DHL #AvGeek pic.twitter.com/FCYbgFaW0H
— AviationSource (@AvSourceNews) April 7, 2022
1999 built DHL Aero Expreso B757-27APCF aircraft did an emergency landing receiving substantial damages at Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO),followed by takeoff and a 25 minutes holding pattern from the same airport on 7th April.
📹Edwin Rose #aircraft #safety #aviation pic.twitter.com/p6hkCXqOLY— FL360aero (@fl360aero) April 7, 2022
Picture: Screenshot
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