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8 June 2013

Wizz Air Flight W6-3141 , Airbus A320 registration HA-LWM from Bucharest to Rome(Ciampino) with 165 passengers and 5 crew it was on approach near Ciampino when the crew noticed that they cann't extend the left hand gear , they went arround entering a hold at 5000 feet and after some checks they decided to divert to Rome Fiumicino that has longer runway.There they performed a low approach arround 1000 feet near airport for people in ground to inspect the gear and they confirmed that the left gear it is not extented.Airplane went arround and came back on runway 34R for a safe landing with 2 gears and touched down on left engine , left wind and tail area.Passengers dissembarged via slide chutes.

After came to a stop and after inspection they found that the left gear stuck in halfway

 

On 30 July the ANSV released some safety recomendations.You can read them here

 

HA-LWM


© Gianluca De Rossi

 

First Flight:03-02-2012

Age:1.4 years

 

photos from twitter

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photo from Faraglia

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Rome Fiumicino Airport runway 34R it has lenght 11760 feet

fiumicino

 

Source

Corriere Della serra

Ansa

 

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