Incident of the week #16

Sometimes, even if you´re flying without passengers, an incident may happen and the crew has to evacuate themselves from the aircraft.

This happened this week, to a Saudi Arabian A300 flight from Madinah to Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). The flight originated in Mashad, Iran and then flew to Madinah where all the passengers disembarked the aircraft (their destination). The aircraft was then flown to Jeddah for repositioning purposes, with only 10 crew members on board. The flight went smooth, but just before landing in Jeddah, the crew had to abort the approach since the nose gear indicated unsafe. After unsuccefull tries to deploy the nose gear manually, the crew landed on runway 16L with the nose gear missing, came to a stop short of the runway end and was then evacuated via slides. All 10 crew members suffered no injuries.