Air Niugini Boeing 737 missar landningsbanan, Chuuk International Airport (TKK)

[Mattias Holmén]

An Air Niugini Boeing 737-800 crashed in Chuuk after it landed short of the runway at Chuuk International Airport (TKK) in Weno.

Weno is the main island of the Province of Chuuk in the Federated States of Micronesia, located north of Australia and east of the Philippines.

The carrier’s flight PX73 was scheduled to depart at 09:55 local time from the Federated States of Micronesian airport of Chuuk with destination Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.

Läs mer på: Updated: Air Niugini Boeing 737 Crashes, Sinks in Weno | Airways Magazine

 

[IT-snubben]

“I thought we landed hard,” said passenger Billy Janes to a missionary in Chuuk, Matthew Colson.

“Until I looked over and saw a hole in the side of the plane and water was coming in. And I thought, well, this is not the way it’s supposed to happen.”

Skarpögt ;-)

 

[henrik l]

Lite kuriosa. En av detta forums grundare hade tydligen flugit med den kärran några månader tidigare, apropå jag mötte Lassie Men skönt att det slutade relativt väl.