An Air Contractors Airbus A300 flying for DHL veered off the runway at Bratislava Airport yesterday, after the nose gear collapsed.
The gear collapsed during roll out after touch down, apparently at relatively low speed. The crew had not reported any problems prior to landing. The aircraft came to stop around 1800 meters past runway threshold with all gear and the nose on soft ground.
No injuries.
[ AvHerald has already reported Metar, and the tail wind has been identified as the root cause for both metal fatigue and hydraulic failure
Some media report this as "radioactive plane crashed"
, as there apparently was some low-level radioactive freight on board. Maybe one of the crew had a wristwatch with some luminous tritium on the dial. ]