Video Link: Emergency Landing!
It was a chaotic day for Poland's Frederic Chopin International Airport on Tuesday. A Boeing 767 that originally took off from Newark, New Jersey made an emergency crash landing at the airport after it's landing gear failed. Now the good news. None of the passengers on the plane were injured. Also no one was injured outside of the plane. The plane, however, did not do quite as well. Huge holes were carved into the lower fuselage, or belly, of the plane. Luckily, the extra layers of protective steel and insulation kept everything except for loud scraping noises from reaching the passengers.
The 767 circled around the Warsaw airport for about an hour after it's pre-scheduled land time before it landed at about 4:40 in the afternoon. LOT, the company that owns the 767 had this to say: "After noticing a central hydraulic system failure the standard procedure for emergency landings at Warsaw airport were implemented." There was a grand total of 231 people on the flight, 220 of them passengers and 11 crew, none of which were injured. The airline company said they will now begin construction of a new 767 that will now take this one's place.
Reporter Jake Grider signing off.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/01/world/europe/poland-plane/index.html?hpt=ieu_c2
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