Aeropostal DC95 at Puerto Ordaz on Sep 26th 2011, hard landing at 4.2G tears engines off

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An Aeropostal Douglas DC-9-50, registration YV136T performing flight VH-342 from Caracas to Puerto Ordaz (Venezuela) with 125 passengers and 7 crew, made a hard touch down at Puerto Ordaz' runway 07 at about +4.2G causing both engines' (JT8D) pylons ...

An Aeropostal Douglas DC-9-50, registration YV136T performing flight VH-342 from Caracas to Puerto Ordaz (Venezuela) with 125 passengers and 7 crew, made a hard touch down at Puerto Ordaz' runway 07 at about +4.2G causing both engines' (JT8D) pylons

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Sep 26, 2011

Classification
Accident

Airline
Aeropostal

Flight number
FL-342

Departure
Not revealed

Destination
Not revealed

Aircraft Registration
N343434

Aircraft Type
DOUGLAS DC-9-50

ICAO Type Designator
DC95

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