zzdcar
Home
/
Reviews
/
Beyond Cars
/
Alaska Airlines Plane Punctures Wing In Rough Landing
Alaska Airlines Plane Punctures Wing In Rough Landing-July 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:13:48

A photo of an aircraft parked on a runway at night with its landing gear broken.

California has been through the ringer this weekend as in the south of the state, bringing high winds and severe rainfall to some areas. The storm and even left . The storm also made flying into and out of California a nightmare.

As the extreme weather hit the state, more than 1,000 and others faced some tough conditions at takeoff and landing. One flight that braved the conditions sustained some serious damage when it came into land.

, Alaska Airlines flight Flight 1288 was traveling from Seattle to Santa Ana on Sunday. When coming into land and battling the strong winds, the plane came down hard damaging its landing gear and one of its wings. According to NPR:

Flight 1288 was traveling from Seattle to Santa Ana in Orange County, when it appears to have hit the ground, dragging its left wing down the short tarmac, according to a video posted to social media.

Passengers on board can be heard screaming during the minute-long video as the plane makes sharp contact with the ground. Meanwhile, bright white and orange streaks can be seen out of a left-hand passenger window.

When it landed, the landing gear on one side of the plane appeared to give way and puncture the wing of the aircraft. According to a statement shared with NPR by Alaska Airline, “experienced an issue soon after landing” that meant it was “unable to taxi to the gate due to an issue with its landing gear.”

As a result, the plane parked on a taxiway and was unable to taxi to the gate after landing. This meant that the 106 people onboard had to be evacuated away from the airport terminal. NPR reports that nobody was injured during the incident.

The landing could have gone even worse, as the airport in Santa Ana has a much shorter runway than many other commercial sites. As such, pilots need to quickly slam on the anchors to come to a stop on landing, which I imagine is much harder to do when your landing gear rips a hole in the wing.

Comments
Welcome to zzdcar comments! Please keep conversations courteous and on-topic. To fosterproductive and respectful conversations, you may see comments from our Community Managers.
Sign up to post
Sort by
Show More Comments
Beyond Cars
Aircraft Touch Tips During Blizzard At Japanese Airport
Aircraft Touch Tips During Blizzard At Japanese Airport
As at , its port side wing the starboard vertical stabilizer of bound for Hong Kong. This comes at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, and . “Our aircraft, which was stationary at the time with no customers nor crew onboard, was struck by a Korean Air A330 which was taxiing past,”...
Jul 21, 2025
Deadliest Train In America Kills 3 People In 2 Separate Collisions At The Same Crossing
Deadliest Train In America Kills 3 People In 2 Separate Collisions At The Same Crossing
operate between Orlando and Miami and hold the unwelcome distinction of being both the first intra-city high speed rail in the U.S. and the , by far. After three people died at a single grade crossing in two separate incidents last week it seems the feds are finally perking...
Jul 21, 2025
Marshmallow Treats Ended Up On The Royal Air Force's No-Fly List
Marshmallow Treats Ended Up On The Royal Air Force's No-Fly List
Over in the United Kingdom, there’s a certain dessert known as a “teacake” — or, as a British friend kindly informed me, it’s more accurately known as a “Tunnock” in Scotland. Basically, the food in question for this particular story are actually a cookie base topped with marshmallow, coated...
Jul 21, 2025
2023 Zero DSR/X: The Bike Of The Future, But Not Our Future
2023 Zero DSR/X: The Bike Of The Future, But Not Our Future
The world, in 2023, is cyberpunk. We’ve got the , the , and the that keeps the and the . But in cyberpunk media, people are always riding . Why are we stuck with the same bikes we’ve always had? , it seems, wants to address this grievous wrong....
Jul 21, 2025
String Of Boeing Failures Continues With 737-800 Flight Turning Back With Cracked Cockpit Windshield
String Of Boeing Failures Continues With 737-800 Flight Turning Back With Cracked Cockpit Windshield
In the wake of recent major , including , , and the debacle that was , it isn’t a good time for further failures by the company. that would , an unrelated 737-800 with a cracked windshield, became international news this weekend. The flight took off from Sapporo-New Chitose...
Jul 21, 2025
Crystal Chunks Are Bursting Through The Road In China
Crystal Chunks Are Bursting Through The Road In China
A video of what looks like quartz breaking through the surface of a is making the rounds on . I don’t get over there much, being suspicious of the Chinese over concerns of it spying on its users, as the reports. OK, fine. Actually, I just don’t get the humor...
Jul 21, 2025
Copyright 2023-2025 - www.zzdcar.com All Rights Reserved