Sometimes you´re just taking off from a large international airport, expecting to go home, flying with one of the best and safest airlines in Europe. But then you end up being evacuated in the middle of a grass field..
This happened this week to an Air Dolomiti ATR72, flying from Munique (Germany) to Venice (Italy). After taking-off, the flight who was carrying 58 passengers and 4 crew members was normally climbing when the pilots realised smoke was becoming visible and smelled in the cockpit. They then decided to abort climbing and divert to Munique. But while approaching to Munique, the right hand engine also begun to cause some problems and had do be shut down. While landing with only one engine the aircraft veered left off the runway, impacting a transmissometer and came to a stop a few feet away from the runway, already outside the runway´s protected area with its nose damaged and front nose gear collapsed. All passengers had to be evacuated and no injuries occured.
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