MD82 Crash at MIA

[gotoPzero]

Looks like everyone ok, but does look like a runway excursion with subsequent fire after collision with furniture.

There were over 100 pax on board apparently no one seriously injured.

I am sure VASaviation etal will be on this shorlty!

[gotoPzero]

https://twitter.com/ONLYinDADE

Has crash footage and some footage of the evacuation.

[rjfp1962]

Undercarriage failure and fire in right hand engine. All evacuated.

[Eric Mc]

Well done for getting the evacuation sorted quickly.

I think the undercarriage failed because the aircraft had already left the runway.

[gotoPzero]

Looks like he floated to me, then perhaps tried to vacate too quickly and ran off the taxi way?

That said, people filming the arrival inside the airport possibly means they knew there were problems before the landing? Who knows.

[KTF]

Looking on google maps, the touchdown marker is just after the taxiway where the 747 was waiting:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Miami+Internat...

It looked like it may have come in long although the angle, etc of the video may make it look different.

[gotoPzero]

From the photos online it looks like it went straight over the grass and understeered off the taxiway.

Ended up almost on the other runway. I reckon landed long - about half way down the runway - and tried to make the taxi way.

[Jader1973]

gotoPzero said:

Looks like everyone ok, but does look like a runway excursion with subsequent fire after collision with furniture.

There were over 100 pax on board apparently no one seriously injured.

I am sure VASaviation etal will be on this shorlty!

What sort of furniture? Had someone dumped an old sofa beside the runway?

[normalbloke]

Well, that could have been a lot worse, they do like to snap in the middle when the going gets rough.

[gotoPzero]

[gotoPzero]

Jader1973 said:

What sort of furniture? Had someone dumped an old sofa beside the runway?

Prolly Ikea, Knorrparp or Fartgby.

[gotoPzero]

Video update shows the aircraft sliding down the runway centreline with the left main gear collapsed. So its lost one of the main gear not long after touch down.