Yesterday, at about 5:30 it was reported that an Red Air MD-80 caught fire upon landing at MIA. Not much is known but all are alive. Only a few are injured. HI1064, operating Flight 203, was on a scheduled passenger flight from Las Américas International Airport to Miami Airport. Prior to landing, it is speculated that it hit an antenna cable before landing.
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Red Air Flight 203 (L5203/REA203) was a scheduled international commercial passenger flight from Santo Domingo to Miami by RED Air. On 21 June 2022, the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 aircraft operating the service suffered a landing gear collapse and runway excursion, causing the left wing of the aircraft to impact an antenna structure, followed by a subsequent fire. The incident caused three people to be hospitalized with minor injuries.
The aircraft involved in the accident was a McDonnell Douglas M...
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I still feel really sad for the people that run the airline and that MD-80…
Hope they can still fly again.
After that crash that’s 2 planes that they have so unless they pick up something fast then they may go bust bc that flight was full
The reputation is a problem, not really their amount of planes. Such a shame, bad luck I guess.
And it’s June, this probably wont be the worst that’ll happen, lmao.
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they could take some from LASER (since they own the airline basicaly)
No, take PAWAs, that’s where some of their Maddogs came from anyways.
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nah i dont think they took from PAWA
they take from LASER
Pretty late but okay lol.
Nugget
June 23, 2022, 2:14am
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Pretty late but okay lol.
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IF787
June 23, 2022, 4:54pm
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A left main gear collapse caused it to veer off the runway and hit a radio antenna. It didn’t hit an antenna prior to landing
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September 21, 2022, 4:54pm
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