Ouch!!!!

Sheriff: Jet hits plow in crash landing at closed Telluride airport - The Denver Post

 

Wow, how does that happen... crew doesn't use the radio? Doesn't speak English?

I think that's a write-off, unless they can find another wing in the junkyard.

 

Mexican registration?

 

El Chapo going skiing for the holidays?

 

Pic looks odd

 

I was also assessing the way the damage was applied and I have to assume that the impact was close to the center wing or fuselage to have the airplane still on the runway. I think that if it had been more outboard it would have spun the airplane around. Don't know how much damage was done to the center section or fuselage but I would guess that it is a total due to the stresses and displacement applied to the fuselage and the center section of the wing. Lucky that they got out of it okay. I assume that there is a center section in the fuselage to which the wing is mounted. If the wing is a centerline join, I think that would be worse because it would affect the left wing.

 

I wonder if the plane was out of fuel?,no fire

 

Rear mounted engines, and possibly no electrical cables or /and a clean break without friction in the right spot. Kinda lucky.

 

Doesn't look that bad. I bet it'll buff right out.

 

That's what it says in the article.

Guessing they stopped in El Paso to clear customs, then on to Telluride.

Visibility issue.

Seems like a similar to the Aspen crash last winter... from Mexico also.

 

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