Created Friday, Apr 5th 2024 13:19Z, last updated Wednesday, May 8th 2024 15:12Z
An ABX Air Boeing 767-300 freighter, registration N372CM performing flight
GB-901 from Miami,FL (USA) to Panama City (Panama) with 2 crew, landed on Panama City's runway 21R but struck its tail onto the runway surface. The aircraft rolled out without further incident and taxied to the apron.
The aircraft is still on the ground in Panama City two weeks later.
On Apr 7th 2024 The Aviation Herald received a video of the landing as well as images of the damage, see below.
On May 8th 2024 Panama's Oficina de Investigacion de Accidentes Aereos
(OFINVAA) released their preliminary report in Spanish stating the aircraft suffered an abnormal runway contact (tail strike) upon landing on runway 21R. The aircraft suffered substantial damage including substantial damage to the aft pressure bulkhead and the subfloor structure in the right hand aft cargo compartment. The occurrence was rated an accident.
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