A cargo plane transporting mail and parcels broke in two on Thursday in Costa Rica. The facts occurred during an emergency landing on the runway of San José airport. The accident caused no casualties, but caused the temporary closure of the airport.
” The two people (who were on board) are in good health,” the country’s fire chief, Hector Chaves, told reporters. The two crewmen, of Guatemalan nationality, were transported as a precaution to a hospital for examination, said Guido Vasquez, a Red Cross first aider.
Hydraulic system problem
The aircraft, a Boeing-757 from the German group DHL, had taken off for 25 minutes from San José airport bound for Guatemala when the pilot reported a problem with the hydraulic system. He asked to turn back, according to Julian Belliard, director of operations and security for the public company Aeris, which manages the airport.
During the emergency landing shortly before 6:30 p.m., at 2:30 a.m. in Paris this Friday, the aircraft skidded, left the runway and broke in two. The accident caused the total paralysis of operations at Juan Santamaria airport in San José, the largest in the country, for 5.5 hours, affecting around a hundred flights and 8,500 passengers.
The activity of the airport has returned to normal, “both for arrivals and for departures”, then indicated Ricardo Hernandez, general manager of Aeris.