Two went off the runway, one of them ended up crashing into a wall and the other had a “main gear fracture” when landing at the Alfonso Bonilla Aragón Airport.
Colombia News.
Air emergencies occurred after eleven in the morning at different airports in the country. Having Bogotá, San Andrés and Palmira (which serves Cali) as the terminals where they were registered.
It was the El Dorado Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento Airport where the first scare occurred, it was 11:43 am this Wednesday when an Aerocommander (AC90) type aircraft, with registration HK 4966 bound for Arauca had to return and make an emergency landing towards the 12 noon.
Regarding the causes of the emergency, the Colombian Civil Aeronautics indicated the following in a statement:
- “The first information indicates that at the moment of landing the device left the runway, it had assistance from the Fire Extinguishing Service and its four occupants, unharmed, left the device by their own means.”
In San Andrés an ambulance crashed into the perimeter wall
The situation on the Island of San Andrés was much more complex, it was around 3:13 in the afternoon when a Merlin SW4 type aircraft, registration number HK 5225, which provides an ambulance service, created fear.
It was taxiing on the runway and about to take a flight to Medellin when, before taking off, it crossed the safety zone and ended up hitting the perimeter wall.
This is how they took out the Merlin SW4 type aircraft, an ambulance service aircraft that had an accident when it left the runway in #SanAndres when I was going to take off #Medellin . The 6 occupants were uninjured, reported the @AerocivilCol More ???? https://t.co/IkDtWFbCwI pic.twitter.com/9rsEsy8hJq
– TuBarco (@tubarconews) February 16, 2022
Inside were six occupants and all were unharmed.
However, the aircraft did end up with some damage to its front end.
The ambulance plane that provides the patient transfer service from San Andrés to other cities crashed into the wall that borders the runway. The accident caused the suspension of air operations.
The 6 crew members escaped unharmed. pic.twitter.com/U6h15xrGJa– Vilma Jay (@VilmaJay14) February 16, 2022
In the Bonilla, another one has a fracture of the left main train
At the Alfonso Bonilla Aragón Airport in Palmira, but which serves Cali, there was also another emergency today.
Which occurred when a Cessna C-172 type aircraft with Panamanian registration HP-1642 fractured its left main gear when it landed on the runway.
The plane at the Palmira airport had its left main gear fractured.
In its report, the Aeronautics informed that the plane had taken off from Palmira bound for Guayaquil, Ecuador. Only the pilot was in it, who was uninjured.
#Important information | Aircraft type Cessna C-172, with Panamanian registration HP-1642 presented the fracture of the left main gear when landing on the runway of the Alfonso Bonilla Aragón Airport, which serves the city of Cali, Valle del Cauca. pic.twitter.com/axRDTCp6PY
– Civil Aeronautics of Colombia (@AerocivilCol) February 16, 2022
