Created Thursday, Jun 24th 2021 17:36Z, last updated Thursday, Jun 24th 2021 17:36Z
A Western Global Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-11 on behalf of Fedex Federal Express, registration N513SN performing flight
FX-251 from Memphis,TN (USA) to San Juan (Puerto Rico), landed on San Juan's runway 08 but blew a main tyre on roll out. The aircraft briefly stopped on the runway, the crew advised they were able to vacate the runway, they did have an anti-skid fail.
The FAA reported: "AIRCRAFT LANDED AND MAIN LANDING GEAR TIRE BLEW DAMAGING GEAR DOORS, SAN JUAN, PR.", the aircraft sustained minor damage, the occurrence was rated an incident. The FAA however provided a wrong tail number N542KD which had landed in San Juan 2 days earlier as flight FX-51 and 2 days later was enroute over the Pacific Ocean towards Honolulu at the time of the occurrence.
