
Pictured: A American Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-82 at Dallas Ft. Worth
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Contact photographer Michael Durning
What: American Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-82 en route from Dallas Ft. Worth to Charlotte,NC
Where: Charlotte
When: Dec 13th 2009
Who: 110 people on board
Why: The flight was a normal flight.
The plane landed with the left main gear off the runway and struck the right wing tip while turning back onto the runway centerline.
The flight received a late landing clearance about 2nm before touch down. On approach, the controller advised the crew of “a significant deviation.”
The crew to disengaged autopilot and compensated for the deviation with a manual landing, landing with the left main gear off runway. The plane suffered only a (right) right wing tip strike while turning to the runway centerline and taxied normally to the gate.
Visibility was poor.
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