The pilots of an Airbus A319 had to detour to São Paulo International Airport, in Guarulhos (SP), this early afternoon on Tuesday, February 6, after the loss of one of the plane's wheels. The audio and video presented in this article allow you to see how everything happened.
The incident occurred with flight LA-3923, from LATAM Brasil, made with the A319 registration PT-TMO, which departed at 12:20 pm from Santos Dumont Airport, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), and would land at Congonhas Airport, in Sao Paulo-SP). However, given the problem with the landing gear, the pilots chose to divert to Guarulhos, an airport with longer runways than Congonhas.
Initially, it was necessary to make a low pass over Guarulhos runway 10L, for a visual check of the condition of the landing gear. After the pass, the Guarulhos Tower controller reported that apparently the nose landing gear was correctly lowered. The pilot then responded that the check was for the main landing gear.
Then, the controller reported that the main gear also appeared to be correctly lowered, to which the pilot responded that the check was about a wheel loss that had occurred during takeoff. She then said that it had not been possible to correctly visualize the wheels, and that she would request confirmation from the personnel who were in a support vehicle close to the track.
5 фев 2024
