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AA321T wrote:My friend is on the tarmac in Miami reporting that a RED Air MD80 crashed at MIA and is on fire with passengers evacuating. Anyone have any insight?
smokeybandit wrote:Reportedly had a landing gear collapse.
notaxonrotax wrote:- That buffs right off!
- Is it a write out?
No Tax On Rotax
Aeroflot001 wrote:Video from the ramp of the end of the crash and evacuation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ibs7nJU80M
SuperGee wrote:Aeroflot001 wrote:Video from the ramp of the end of the crash and evacuation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ibs7nJU80M
I'm trying to figure out the sequence of events here. I could be wrong but it looks to me as if the right main went down first (starting the fire), then the left main went down. Looks as if the nose gear went down last.
I wonder if he had gear down and locked indicators for each and thought everything was normal or if he knew something was wrong and there was trouble ahead. I tend to think he wasn't aware of any problems or they would have had the fire trucks close to the runway in preparation for exactly this happening.
notaxonrotax wrote:- That buffs right off!
- Is it a write out?
No Tax On Rotax
DCA350 wrote:Thank goodness everybody made it out.. Sounds like an emergency landing and then the plane caught on fire..
alberchico wrote:https://mobile.twitter.com/OnDisasters/status/1539385489047838729/photo/2
Looks like a total write off.
questions wrote:What is a typical settlement passengers might receive from the airline in an accident like this?
Aeroflot001 wrote:Video from the ramp of the end of the crash and evacuation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ibs7nJU80M
lx2iah wrote:Aeroflot001 wrote:Video from the ramp of the end of the crash and evacuation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ibs7nJU80M
I’ve watched this video several times. 1 minute 45 seconds before the L1 door was opened and the slide was activated.
This seems like WAY TOO MUCH TIME was wasted to get the passengers seated in the front of that plane out of a potential very bad situation…
What is a typical settlement passengers might receive from the airline in an accident like this?
ltbewr wrote:Sadly this crash will likely shut down this still new airline. It was created in partnership with a Venezuelan airline to offer cheaper flights and for the DR to recover from the loss of tourism from the Covid-19 Pandemic.They had plans to expand this year to several cities in parts of South, Central American and USA, looks like they are destroyed like this aircraft was, but was also facing other LCC's based in the DR and elsewhere in the region. https://onemileatatime.com/news/red-air-miami-airport/.
Sopwith wrote:Passengers escaping with luggage should be banned for life from flying any airline and fined at least $25000.00.