The terrified passengers aboard a Frontier Airlines flight from Florida feared “was the end” when one of the wheels of the plane broke during a landing at a scary moment captured in the camera.
Frontier Flight 5306 approached San Juan, Puerto Rico, when the 228 passenger plane landed at the Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport before returning quickly on April 15.
Duration The first landing attempt, the Airbus A321 suffered a “mechanical problem” results in one of the wheels that tarnish the front landing train, Puerto Rico The newspaper El Nueva Día reported.
“We were landing and the landing was very bad, aggressive and high speed, this caused one of the tires at the front of the plane to break and get on fire,” Melani González Wharton wrote on Facebook.
Wharton had traveled to Florida with her husband and two children, 3 and 6, to visit the theme parks in the area.
The family did not expect their return trip of the holidays to become an experience close to death.
“For a few minutes I thought it was the end of our history here on Earth,” Wharton wrote on Facebook, with a video or passengers undoing the plane.
The mother of two two captured the sight through the window from her seat, which showed an orange shine under the plane while running the stripes of smoke fits the window.
The debris of the damaged equipment were absorbed by the engine, which caused that it smoked, but an engine failure was not reported.
The children were heard in the background crying while other passengers prayed for their safety.
The plane surrounded the airport four times before making a second attempt to land on a different track, according to the FlightAware flight radar site.
The plane approached 500 feet to the track, but it flew and made another circle around the area before landing successful at 10:54 pm4
Tuesday’s flight was more than an hour longer than the usual time that takes Orlando’s trip to Puerto Rico, according to the flight data.
The researchers applauded the work of the flight crew, claiming that their actions saved the plane from a worse end.
A young co -pilot had control at that time before the cold -headed captain approached and stabilized the plane, said flight researcher Luis Irizarry said, According to the Wapa de Puerto Rico.
The photos of the consequences captured the front landing train of the plane that was missing an entire wheel.
No injuries have been reported.
The publication has approached Frontier Airlines.
