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Saab Lands with Stuck Landing Gear


Pictured: Carpatair Saab in flight
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What: Carpatair Saab 2000 en route from the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, to Timisoara in Rumania
Where: emergency landing at Timisoara International Airport in Western Romania
When: Feb 28, 2009
Who: 51 people-47 passengers, 4 crew.
Why: Six miles from the airport, the crew discovered that the plane’s landing gear was stuck. After the flight circled for two hours burning fuel, the plane landed safely on the main landing gear on a 200-yard long bed of foam. No injuries were reported.

Carpatair vice-president Dan Andrei is reported to have said, “When it landed, the plane came down on the side wheels; it braked sharply and at a low speed it came on its front belly, while the front landing gear remained stuck.”


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