Haven't seen this come up as a topic yet. Source: http://avherald.com/h?article=4dffab04&opt=0

Gist of things: Touched down short of runway pavement. Right main gear folds rearward and collapses and aircraft skids down runway on remaining wheels and #2 engine nacelle. Smoke is seen but the airport fire truck has been out of commission for 2 months because it's missing one of its front wheels. Thankfully no injuries to the 44 people on board.

They can park the wheel-less plane over by the wheel-less fire truck. Looks like an okay climate for longterm storage.

Store it? Its a 737 Classic. Abandon it over in the field and get a recently parked NG.

Isn't Air Djibouti still affiliated with UK rock singer and aviation buff Bruce Dickinson via his Cardiff Aviation company?

This was the sole plane of Tajikistan's ASIA SKY LINES, better known for dubios sales of A310 to Mahan Air; previously operating for companies like AUSHAAN AIR or ASIA AIRWAYS - do I need to say more?!

ssteve wrote:

They can park the wheel-less plane over by the wheel-less fire truck. Looks like an okay climate for longterm storage.

Based on the accident location, getting an AOG team there will cost more than 2 replacement 735s.

https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b737-26538.htm

I do wonder how many hrs/cycles it has and it's current value.

Then I look at Spacepope's comment and wonder if it is really best to strip it out and replace t.

i thought maybe "sheikdjibouti" would weight in on this thread, no?

Spacepope wrote:

Smoke is seen but the airport fire truck has been out of commission for 2 months because it's missing one of its front wheels.

I'm mortified by that statement alone. It falls under the category of "Murphy's Law".

Spacepope wrote:

Smoke is seen but the airport fire truck has been out of commission for 2 months because it's missing one of its front wheels.

The airport has military aircraft from US, France, Japan etc, more than one fire appliance is located there. It would be one of the better airports in Africa to have an emergency at with the equipment that is there.

zeke wrote:

Spacepope wrote:

Smoke is seen but the airport fire truck has been out of commission for 2 months because it's missing one of its front wheels.

The airport has military aircraft from US, France, Japan etc, more than one fire appliance is located there. It would be one of the better airports in Africa to have an emergency at with the equipment that is there.

That’s interesting, since as I google aerial images of the airport it looks like a single runway with a tingle terminal building lacking even a paved road going to it. Usually US installlations would have their own base housing and a separate apron with some sort of shelters.

Are you thinking of the same Garowe?

zeke wrote:

Spacepope wrote:

Smoke is seen but the airport fire truck has been out of commission for 2 months because it's missing one of its front wheels.

The airport has military aircraft from US, France, Japan etc, more than one fire appliance is located there. It would be one of the better airports in Africa to have an emergency at with the equipment that is there.

Hey... Zeke...Earth is Calling...accident happened in Garowe-Somalia, not in Djibouti

Antarius wrote:

Spacepope wrote:

zeke wrote:

The airport has military aircraft from US, France, Japan etc, more than one fire appliance is located there. It would be one of the better airports in Africa to have an emergency at with the equipment that is there.

That’s interesting, since as I google aerial images of the airport it looks like a single runway with a tingle terminal building lacking even a paved road going to it. Usually US installlations would have their own base housing and a separate apron with some sort of shelters.

Are you thinking of the same Garowe?

Nope. That's in Somalia. This is in Djibouti

The botched landing was in Somalia.

Antarius wrote:

Spacepope wrote:

Antarius wrote:

Nope. That's in Somalia. This is in Djibouti

The botched landing was in Somalia.

Yup. The airline got me twisted.

But yes, I do not believe US air forces operate out of this base. They're south of Mogadishu at Baledogle

Can you show a source because google earth just shows a paved strip and a single perpendicular taxiway to basically a shack as the entirety of infrastructure there. Looks like it’s pretty remote and undeveloped at Garowe international.

Antarius wrote:

ssteve wrote:

They can park the wheel-less plane over by the wheel-less fire truck. Looks like an okay climate for longterm storage.

In case of emergency landing, please steer the aircraft towards the stationary fire truck.

The truck works just fine, apart from the wheel. As long as it's within reach of the water cannon...

Spacepope wrote:

Are you thinking of the same Garowe?

You didn’t mention GGR earlier, I thought it was in JIB.

Is the 737’s wheel still okay? They might put it on the fire engine.

Spacepope wrote:

Antarius wrote:

Spacepope wrote:

That’s interesting, since as I google aerial images of the airport it looks like a single runway with a tingle terminal building lacking even a paved road going to it. Usually US installlations would have their own base housing and a separate apron with some sort of shelters.

Are you thinking of the same Garowe?

Nope. That's in Somalia. This is in Djibouti

The botched landing was in Somalia.

Did the survivors get a free bag of Khat for their troubles?

So a collapsed landing gear becomes "737-500 rips gear off". So Anet!

ukoverlander wrote:

So a collapsed landing gear becomes "737-500 rips gear off". So Anet!

I think there's a lot of inference from the first image at avherald where there are skidmarks at the aprupt verge of the runway. (I don't say threshold because I don't know if there's threshold that's not dirt)