Post by charter on Feb 5, 2013 11:47:45 GMT
Some days ago, at 8.50 pm, an Alitalia ATR-72 operated from Carpatair (Romania) crashed during landing at Rome "Leonardo Da Vinci" airport.
It was a full Alitalia livery ATR-72 but with Carpatair reg. and crew. Alitalia has a partnership with Carpatair, but this airline had many other problems of maintenance of its airplanes in the past. This time the wind was from 250° 25 knots, but it seems there was a gust of lateral wind from the sea with a kind of windshear and the pilot lost control. The airplane bounced two times on the runway finishing its run on the grass. Fortunately there were no deaths but only injuries.
It was a full Alitalia livery ATR-72 but with Carpatair reg. and crew. Alitalia has a partnership with Carpatair, but this airline had many other problems of maintenance of its airplanes in the past. This time the wind was from 250° 25 knots, but it seems there was a gust of lateral wind from the sea with a kind of windshear and the pilot lost control. The airplane bounced two times on the runway finishing its run on the grass. Fortunately there were no deaths but only injuries.