On Tuesday, a Frontier Airlines flight from Florida made for harrowing experiences for passengers after the entry landing gear on the plane suffered a big failure during landing in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Flight 5306, also known as 3506, operated from Orlando International Airport to Luis Muoz Marn International Airport, is currently being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB ).
The Airbus A321, which had 228 passengers on board, made a difficult landing during its first descent, causing one of the tires on the front landing gear to fall off. The vehicle was detaching, according to Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Dia, which was attributed to a “mechanical issue.”
After the unsuccessful attempt, the aeroplane rapidly climbed back into the air.
According to customer Melani Gonzalez Wharton, who was a passenger on Twitter and was quoted by Fox News,” We were landing and the getting was very terrible, intense, and at a high rate, and this caused one of the wheels on the front of the aircraft to break and catch hearth.”
Wharton, who was visiting with her husband and two babies, said,” For a moment I thought our history here on earth was over.”
Online video clips that were shared captured people crying and praying inside the windows and outdoors.
According to CNN, Air Traffic Controllers were reportedly on Air Traffic’s audio recordings after the difficult landing to warn of “debris on the tarmac.” A joystick called out a “he has declared an emergency,” prompting another captain to get in the area.
The plane circled the aircraft four times before safely landing at 10:20 p.m. No fatalities were reported, and people were taken by bus to the switch and deplaned on the runway. Due to the emergency, the flight, which is generally shorter, lasted for more than an hour long.
The event was confirmed by Frontier Airlines in a statement to Fox News Digital, which read,” The plane landed safely and no one was hurt. The event is being looked into.
Puerto Rico’s WAPA-TV quoted airfare analyst Luis Irizarry as saying that a youthful co-pilot was the plane’s first pilot when the landing gear failed. Nevertheless, the captain” sealed up and stabilized the aircraft,” he said, praising the crew’s peaceful action for preventing a disaster.
In response to the circumstance, Wharton continued,” The fact was that we were flying in the arms of inexperts.”
Trip data demonstrated that the aircraft approached the runway within 500 feet of the airport before mutilating and circling once more. Due to the airport’s temporary closure for safety inspections, several different planes were diverted.
A final report on the structural failure from the FAA and NTSB is awaited.
