Incident

LA3999 - Incident: LATAM Brasil A319 at Rio de Janeiro on Jan 7th 2023

Created Wednesday, Jan 18th 2023 20:36Z, last updated Wednesday, Jan 18th 2023 20:36Z

Rio de Janeiro Galeao International Airport
File photo: Rio de Janeiro Galeao International Airport.

A LATAM Brasil Airbus A319-100, registration PT-TMB performing flight LA-3999 from Curitiba,PR to Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont,RJ (Brazil) with 119 passengers and 5 crew, landed on Santos Dumont's runway 02R when the crew noticed the loss of brake efficiency, performed the related procedures and managed to slow the aircraft to taxi speed and vacate the runway at the last exit.

Brazil's CENIPA reported the aircraft blew a left main tyre during the landing roll but managed to vacate the runway on own power.

The aircraft returned to service about 17.5 hours later.

Source: The Aviation Herald

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