(Miami) American investigators are due to arrive at Miami airport (southeast) on Wednesday, where a Red Air plane landed on Tuesday with a landing gear problem, causing a fire and the evacuation of 140 people, three of whom were injured.
Posted at 9:18 a.m.
Images relayed by American media show the plane, a McDonnell Douglas which came from the Dominican Republic, across the tarmac, half in the grass, the nose shattered, while the passengers left the cabin hastily on one side, black smoke being visible from the other.
The United States transportation safety agency, the NTSB, is “sending a team of investigators to Miami after the landing gear collapse and runway excursion of an MD-82 aircraft today at the Miami International Airport,” she tweeted on Tuesday.
“The nose landing gear collapsed which appears to have caused the fire,” the airport said in a tweet.
Flight L5-203 “experienced technical difficulties” when it landed around 5:45 p.m. local time, Red Air, a small discount airline based in the Dominican Republic and launched in November, said on Twitter.
It indicates that 130 passengers and 10 crew members were evacuated from the aircraft.
“Three patients have been transported to nearby hospitals,” the Miami Fire Department announced on Twitter. They specify that they “controlled the fire and limited the fuel leak. »