Airman causes “severe incident” on runway
Last Thursday, a propeller plane paralyzed the main runway at Zurich Airport for 50 minutes. Nobody is injured in the incident.
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- Last Thursday, a light aircraft touched the ground lights at Zurich Airport.
- The right undercarriage of the Cirrus SR22T machine was damaged.
- The main landing runway had to be closed for 50 minutes.
Just after 5 p.m. last Thursday is approaching a runway 14 propeller plane at Zurich Airport. At the controls of the Cirrus SR22T machine sits a pilot, who recently completed retraining. An experienced pilot accompanies him during the control flight pilot.
But the landing approach goes wrong: The small plane flies too low and mows down a ground light at the runway threshold.
Although the right landing gear was damaged in the incident, the aircraft landed safely and entered the taxiway. But suddenly the chassis buckles. The machine built in 2015 must be recovered. About the incident reports the «Tages-Anzeiger».
Zurich Airport had to close the runway for 50 minutes
Two business jets can still land on the main runway in Kloten before they are closed. On Alitalia-Passenger plane from Rome can only go around. After 30 minutes, the next planes are allowed to land on runway 16, including the machine from Rome.
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The Swiss Safety Investigation Board has been informed. According to the newspaper, investigator Florian Reitz described the incident as a “serious incident”.
But it was not an accident, according to Reitz. The machine’s propeller remained intact and no one was injured. According to Zurich Airport, runway 14 had to be closed for 50 minutes. The incident did for passenger operations had no consequences.
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