Accidents and Incidents
Quebec Air flight 714, a Boeing 707 operating a flight from Toronto, caught a wind shear while on approach to Hewanorra international airport on 19 February 1979. The windshear caused the aircraft to halt its descent while already over the threshold. The copilot who was flying at that time retarded the throttles, however at that very moment the aircraft had passed the windshear zone and the nose of the aircraft slammed into the runway and bounced twice, destroying the nose landing gear. There were no fatalities and minor injuries in this incident. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair and was written off.
British Airways flight 2158 ran off the end of the runway while taxiing to its take off point on a departure from Hewanorra International Airport to London-Gatwick on 6 June 2010. The nose wheel dug a large semi-circular furrow in the soft ground as the pilot attempted the required 180° turn, fortunately the rear wheels remained on the tarmac. It took a while for the aircraft Boeing 777-200 to be removed after which it was deemed undamaged and made its flight to Gatwick some 30 hours later. A few flights were diverted to other airports because of the incident. There were no injuries or fatalities.
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