No serious injuries after Sunwing landing gear malfunction
Posted September 8, 2019 4:31 pm.
Last Updated September 8, 2019 10:19 pm.
No serious injuries but a lot of anxious moments after a Sunwing airliner suffered a malfunction while landing at Pearson Airport.
Peel Regional Police say Sunwing flight 272, which was returning from Cancun, Mexico, suffered what appeared to be a blown tire around 3:15 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
Video from inside the aircraft shows nervous passengers clinging to the back of the seats in front of them as the plane rumbles down the runway upon landing.
VIEWER VIDEO: A Sunwing passenger captures terrifying moments on his flight back from Cancun- the tire on his plane apparently blew while landing at Toronto’s Pearson airport tonight. We are hearing plane windows are broken & ceilings are cracked- thankfully no injuries reported. pic.twitter.com/VBOaBL5E6r
— Tina Yazdani (@TinaYazdani) September 8, 2019
One passenger tells 680 NEWS at least one person was hit in the head by items that fell from the overhead compartment. There are also reports that the interior of the cabin may have been damaged.
Robert Minnella, who was returning from a family vacation in Mexico, tells CityNews it was a “pretty scary” ordeal.
“As we touched down, the whole aircraft started shaking back-and-forth back-and-forth. It was pretty frightening,” he said. “With a one-year old, as you can imagine, just chaos.”
Minnella says to add insult to injury, he and the rest of the passengers on the flight had to wait another two hours for their luggage to arrive at the terminal.
In a statement to CityNews, Sunwing confirms the aircraft, which was operated by Swift Air, ruptured a tire upon landing. Further inspection revealed a hydraulic leak from the same landing gear.
