A plane from the Canadian airline Sunwing Airlines had to make an emergency landing this Wednesday afternoon at the Juan Gualberto Gómez International Airport, in Varadero, after presenting a problem with its landing gear during takeoff in Villa Clara. According to the official press, neither the 190 passengers nor the crew were injured and the aircraft touched down “without major problems.”
The plane, a Boeing 737, had a malfunction “in one of the tires when taking off” and “an emergency was declared.” After the protocols were activated at the Varadero airport and with the “expertise of the crew, he managed to land without major problems,” he published in Facebook the pro-government journalist for TV Yumurí, Pedro Rizo Martínez. For its part, Canal Caribe specified that the problem was in the left landing gear.
A source from the Cuban Air Navigation Company (ECNA) said to cubadebate that “the emergency landing was successfully completed after the landing gear failed to retract as it should.” “All the established procedures were carried out, the pilot managed to make a successful maneuver,” added the official media.
It is about flight WG307, which left Santa Clara at approximately 4:05 pm and was due to arrive in Montreal, Canada, at 7:45 pm.
“All the established procedures were carried out, the pilot managed to make a successful maneuver”
Rizo Martínez shared images of the aircraft in the Juan Gualberto Gómez where several firefighters, tanker trucks and foam are seen on the runway. The passengers were transferred to the airport and received by the air terminal staff. The journalist also said that the pilot was in charge of the flight Vicky Ears.
These flights between Cuba and Canada carry mostly tourists. According to the latest official data, the canadians they represent more than half of the total number of international travelers received so far this year, with 387,071. Behind is the Cuban community abroad, with 83,670, and the United States, which accumulates 41,152.
On March 5, a fire forced emergency landing of Southwest Airlines flight WN3923 at the José Martí International Airport in Havana, which occurred when a bird struck the turbine and the nose of the plane shortly after taking off to Fort Lauderdale (Florida), according to a statement from the airline.
The incident was heard from the Calabazar neighborhood in Havana, where a neighbor gave the alert to 14ymediowhich advanced the news then: “Three explosions were felt and in the air the plane began to release black smoke from one of the turbines.”
An airport source confirmed to this newspaper that the aircraft had landed in the area of the runway closest to Terminal 3, although it had initially departed from Terminal 2. “Firefighters and ambulances arrived but no details are yet known, the entire place is cordoned off “, the employee told in the first moments.
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