A WestJet flight from Toronto made a hard landing in St. Maarten, prompting passengers to evacuate using emergency slides, officials said. No injuries were reported.

 

WestJet flight WS2276, a Boeing 737-800, made a hard landing at Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Maarten at 1:29 p.m. local time on Sunday, the airline said in a statement. Emergency crews responded, spraying foam around the aircraft as a precaution.

 

Slides were deployed, and passengers and crew evacuated onto the runway before being transported to the terminal. The airline said all passengers were accounted for and no injuries were reported.

 

 

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Looks like came in too hot and decided to put down heavy too far down the runway. Go around better option?

31 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Looks like came in too hot and decided to put down heavy too far down the runway. Go around better option?

 

Came in too high and slammed it down. The go-around would have been a better solution. That runway is famous, with many YouTube's showing much larger jets coming in much lower over the beach and perimeter fence.

 

 

 

 

Looking at those beach photos reminded me of my youth. We used to drop mushrooms & get right up to the fence at the end of the runway, lie down & watch the planes take off!