Airbrakes defective: Mallorca plane lands in the wrong place in Switzerland
A flight from Mallorca to St. Gallen, Switzerland, had to make an emergency landing in Zurich due to a brake flap failure. The passengers were transported by bus.
Anxious moments aboard the People's Embraer E170 from Mallorca to St. Gallen: The aircraft took off from Palma de Mallorca at 1:25 p.m., 25 minutes late. At 2:53 p.m., it was on approach to Altenrhein, but then suddenly began circling between Romanshorn and Sulgen, near Lake Constance, according to data on Flightradar24.com .
After three rounds, the plane flew towards Zurich, where it landed at 3:26 p.m. As the “Tagesanzeiger ” reports, the 50 passengers taken by bus to St. Gallen.
According to the Tagesanzeiger newspaper, People's confirmed a defect in the airbrakes. If such an incident occurs, the aircraft would require a longer runway than usual for safety reasons.
People's Airlines, formerly known as People's Viennaline, is an Austrian regional airline based at St. Gallen-Altenrhein Airport in Switzerland. The airline was founded in 2010 and began operations in 2011.
Air traffic control informed the crew: "Jetblue 407, there was a dog on the runway, so go around, climb, and maintain 2000 km/h." The following Jetblue flight, B6-404, was also instructed to perform a go-around. A "go-around" in aviation refers to the maneuver in which an aircraft aborts its landing approach and regains altitude to begin a new approach.
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