Created Friday, Apr 1st 2022 18:22Z, last updated Friday, Apr 1st 2022 18:34Z
An Azores Airlines Airbus A321-200N, registration CS-TSI performing flight
S4-280 (dep Feb 3rd) from Boston,MA (USA) to Ponta Delgada (Portugal) with 90 passengers and 7 crew, landed on Ponta Delgada's runway 30 but touched down hard at 07:41L (07:41Z). The aircraft rolled out without further incident.
Portugal's GPIAA reported the hard landing and stated, they only recorded the occurrence but are not going to investigate (essentially rating the damage minor and the occurrence an incident).
The aircraft remained on the ground until Feb 17th 2022, then positioned to Lisbon (Portugal) and resumed service on Feb 24th 2022.
A similiar occurrence happened about 7.5 hours earlier, see Incident: Azores A21N at Ponta Delgada on Feb 4th 2022, hard landing.
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