By Cristina Hodgson • Published: 03 Feb 2020 • 18:00
FOR THE second time today, Spain’s Madrid Airport in under alarm for flight drama.
@controladores va todo bien? Ese vuelo ha pasado por Tres Cantos después de despegar de MAD Barajas tan bajo que que no era normal 🤔😰 @aeropuertoMAD pic.twitter.com/DoMSu5x2xB — Beatriz M. Blancas (@Beatrizxy) February 3, 2020
@controladores va todo bien? Ese vuelo ha pasado por Tres Cantos después de despegar de MAD Barajas tan bajo que que no era normal 🤔😰 @aeropuertoMAD pic.twitter.com/DoMSu5x2xB
— Beatriz M. Blancas (@Beatrizxy) February 3, 2020
@controllers Is everything all right? That flight passed through Tres Cantos after taking off from MAD Barajas so low that it was not normal. Credit: Beatriz M. Blancas @Beatrizxy
Spain’s port operator AENA says that an Air Canada Boeing 767 aircraft is to make an emergency landing at the airport in Madrid Monday after reporting technical problems.
As Euro Weekly News understands, the Toronto-bound flight AC837 departed from the Adolfo Suárez-Barajas international airport earlier in the day however just 30 minutes after takeoff it requested a slot for an emergency landing.
Spain’s main union of pilot workers, SEPLA, reported the following in a tweet:
More problems in Barajas: at 3pm, a Boeing 767 from Air Canada lost parts of its landing gear which had entered the engine, forcing it to declare an emergency. It must now spend three hours burning fuel.
Más problemas en Barajas: a las 15h, un Boeing 767 de Air Canada ha perdido piezas del tren de aterrizaje que han entrado en el motor, obligándolo a declarar emergencia. Ahora deberá estar tres horas quemando combustible. — Sepla (@sepla_pilotos) February 3, 2020
Más problemas en Barajas: a las 15h, un Boeing 767 de Air Canada ha perdido piezas del tren de aterrizaje que han entrado en el motor, obligándolo a declarar emergencia. Ahora deberá estar tres horas quemando combustible.
— Sepla (@sepla_pilotos) February 3, 2020
According to Spain’s El Mundo, the plane is carrying 130 passengers and that it lost a wheel during takeoff.
The incident has been recorded by various residents of Madrid, alarmed that there was a plane flying unusually low over the Spanish capital’s centre and suburbs.
As tweeted by Oscar Guitierrez:
“This is the Air Canada plane that has flown over the centre of Madrid at no more than 200 metres above sea level. It was scary to see it just above the Retiro turning south. #frightening”
Este es el avión de Air Canadá que ha sobrevolado el centro de Madrid a no más 200 metros de altura . Ha dado miedo verlo justo sobre ell Retiro girando hacia el sur .. #susto pic.twitter.com/P7KSD79xMh — oscar gutierrez (@ogutierrezramos) February 3, 2020
Este es el avión de Air Canadá que ha sobrevolado el centro de Madrid a no más 200 metros de altura . Ha dado miedo verlo justo sobre ell Retiro girando hacia el sur .. #susto pic.twitter.com/P7KSD79xMh
— oscar gutierrez (@ogutierrezramos) February 3, 2020
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