Several lives were saved when a plane safely landed despite a technical failure where the front wheels wheel failed to deploy.
All 89 people on board managed to walk away from the broken-down jet after Myanmar Airlines flight UB-103 was grounded at around 9am on Sunday in Mandalay.
Footage on social media shows the Embraer-190 model gracefully landing before the nose falls forward and grinds into the runway. “Smoke came out a little when we landed… All passengers are okay,” passenger Soe Moe told AFP.
Myanmar National Airlines is dispatching a team of engineers to Mandalay to inspect the aircraft.
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The incident comes just days after another aircraft skidded off the runway at Myanmar’s Yangon International Airport. The Biman Airlines’ Bombardier Dash-8 aircraft broke into three parts during the crash and four people reportedly suffered injuries.