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Tire, Landing Gear Fail on Sky Airlines Antalya Landing

Tire, Landing Gear Fail on Sky Airlines Antalya Landing


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Contact photographer Szabolcs Kelemen

What: Sky Airlines Boeing 737-400 en route from Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden (Germany) to Antalya (Turkey)
Where: Antalya on
When: Oct 10th 2011
Who: 156 passengers and 6 crew
Why: After a normal flight, on landing in Turkey, the plane’s right main gear collapsed when a right tire burst.

One cause for a burst tire is a hard or fast landing, or the state of the runway. The cause has not yet been determined.

In the accident photos (according to AV gossip), the logo has been painted out with white paint.

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