11/05/2020 12:11
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/05/2020 4:17 PM
A great scare was taken by the 10 passengers who were on board a small plane in Mendoza.
At the El Plumerillo international airport, in the provincial capital, the aircraft
got lost when landing
and the firefighters had to intervene.
According to local media, it is a Metro III private plane and not a commercial airline.
The flight arrived in Mendoza from San Juan.
The ten passengers and the crew would have
been unharmed
.
Due to the dismissal and work of the firefighters, the activity was paralyzed at the airport and it will be like that for about five hours, at least.
The incident meant that different passengers who were waiting to take off, such as those on an Aerolineas Argentina flight that
had already boarded
, cannot leave until the situation is normalized.
Dismissal of an aircraft at the Mendoza airport, without take-off time to Ezeiza.
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- matias jalaf (@matiasjalaf) November 5, 2020
One of those affected is Matías Jalaf, a Mendoza Road Tourism driver, who was about to leave from the provincial capital to Ezeiza to compete this weekend for the double date of the automobile category at the La Plata racetrack.
"Dismissal of an aircraft at the Mendoza airport, with no takeoff time to Ezeiza," Jalaf posted on social media.
A plane got lost when landing at Mendoza airport, it had 10 people on board, there were no injuries Photo: Ignacio Blanco / Los Andes
Another of the people who were waiting to take a flight spoke to the
MDZol
site
and recounted what he had experienced: "It was 9.40 am when our plane was maneuvering to get comfortable and start taxiing. Suddenly it stopped and remained stopped for a few minutes, until the The pilot told us that we were going to wait because a plane had gotten lost. "
"The plane
was in the middle of the grass
, while the fire trucks came at full speed and began to throw water on it," he said.
He also said that he saw from his place how a bus arrived and took the passengers who
were able to get off the plane without problems
.
The plane, clueless at El Plumerillo airport.
Photo Twitter.
He also said that the passengers on the Aerolineas flight were "made to get off, because the airport will be closed until the expert reports are made" and that since then they continue to wait in the pre-boarding hall.
He also complained because to board the flight and for the emergency evacuation
"there has been very little protocol
.
"
"They never took our temperature, they only asked us to have the Caring application and the permits were set there. The plane was full, 3 people per row, without distancing. We were all locked in the plane for 40 minutes until they made us get off without protocol some and here we are waiting, because they have not given us news, "he concluded.
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