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Accident: Cargo Carriers SH36 at Las Vegas on Jun 25th 2021

Created Saturday, Jun 26th 2021 16:42Z, last updated Monday, Jun 28th 2021 15:48Z

Accident: Cargo Carriers SH36 at Las Vegas on Jun 25th 2021

An Air Cargo Carriers Shorts 360 on behalf of Fedex Federal Express, registration N970AA performing positioning flight SNC-700 from Las Vegas North,NV to Las Vegas,NV (USA) with 2 crew, landed on Las Vegas McCarren Airport's runway 08R when tower instructed the aircraft to taxi all the way down and hold short 08 runway 08L to taxi to the cargo apron, the crew responded they'd remain on the runway, another voice chimed in asking "is your gear up?" The aircraft became stuck on its belly on the runway, emergency services responded at that point, and the aircraft was later lifted off the runway by a crane.

The aircraft had actually performed a full stop landing at North Las Vegas, departed again for a visual return to Las Vegas International Airport and suffered the gear problem at landing at McCarren.

The airport reported the aircraft made a hard landing after the landing gear did not deploy. The FAA is looking into the occurrence.

An airport surveillance camera shows the aircraft was sitting on its belly with all gear up on the runway.

On Jun 28th 2021 the FAA reported: "AIRCRAFT LANDED GEAR UP, LAS VEGAS, NV" and stated, there were no injuries, however, the aircraft received substantial damage, the occurrence was rated an accident.

Related NOTAMs:
!LAS 06/107 LAS RWY 08R RWY END ID LGT U/S 2106252208-2106252359

Source: The Aviation Herald

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