NZ Q300 crash lands at Blenheim airport

[haydensydney]

A passenger plane has crash landed at Blenheim airport this afternoon and all on board have got off safely.

The Bombardier Dash-8 Q300 aircraft's nose wheel has collapsed but there is no other visible damage.

Another Bombardier landing gear issue??

Plane crash lands at Blenheim airport - national | Stuff.co.nz

 

[samh004]

Good photo. If it circled low a couple times, I wonder if the problems were known before landing.

 

[haydensydney]

Not sure. The weather has been a bit cough down that way today, so perhaps the aircraft had to circle for a break in the weather?

Blenheim seems to have had a it's fair share of incidents for a small regional airport!

Report: Eagle Air B190 at Blenheim on June 18th 2007, gear malfunction causes belly landing

 

[samh004]

Very lucky that didn’t happen… but another great photo :shock: