Panama
Stormy Weather Leads to Emergency Landing in Tocumen
On May 21, 2013, a Copa Airlines Boeing 737-7V3 a flight from Guayaquil, Ecuador landed in the rain at Tocumen International Airport in Panama. The plane skidded off the runway, and sustained damage getting mired in soft ground. Engine 2 sustained damage as the right engine impacted soft ground The plane was towed to... »
Bird Strike over Panama
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Bill Shull What: Continental Airlines Boeing 737-900 en route from Panama City (Panama) to Newark,NJ Where: Panama City When: November 18, 2011 Who: 176 aboard Why: After takeoff, while climbing out of Panama City, the Continental flight suffered a bird strike. After ingesting the... »
American Airlines Emergency Landing in Panama
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact Photographer Javier Cáceres What: American Airlines Boeing 757-200 en route from Panama to Miami Where: Tocumen When: Aug 16, 2009 Who: 190 passengers Why: Forty minutes into the flight, the pilot detected smoke in the cabin. An emergency was declared, and the plane returned to... »
Panamanian Cessna Crash a Mystery
What: Cessna 152 belonging to a flight training school en route from Marcos A. Gelabert Airport to the Calzada Larga Airport Where: floating near the village of Tranquillas in the Panama Canal’s Lake Madden When: found early Wednesday Who: Panamanian flight instructor Alex Bosquez and student Abraham Licona Bosquez had a commercial pilot’s license... »























