MD-82 Excursion KMIA
 

Seems like left main collapsed first at touchdown

A better view...

This claimed to be video of the approach but unverified. Looks pretty normal to me.

Pretty quick evacuation...

View of the evacuation ....

Wonder why it took so long to open D1L?

Pax carrying bags in evacuation 🤔.
although the pilots did manage to avoid a school, a hospital and a busy playing field while getting her down.

Well, in fact all was well until touchdown!

As for carrying bags during evacuation, that subject has been discussed at infinitum on this forum. I don't condone it but it's human nature to grab what is important to you, especially if you are Dominican and about to enter the USA. And you try and tell a woman that she can't take her handbag with her!

Yes, it did seem to take too long to open that forward door.

Antenna and tower on right side wrapped around wing. That looks like a substantial structure that was collected in the mishap. Seems as if same side as fire. Have to wonder if fuel cell was ruptured as result of impact with it.

RFFS deployment meant that they had to negotiate the evacuating passengers whilst they were approaching the nose of the MD.

Red Air Accident MIA
 

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A McDonnell-Douglas MD-80 belonging to Dominican Republic carrier Red Air crashed when making an emergency landing at Miami International airport on 21 June.

”The landing gear of RedAir Flight 203, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, collapsed when the aircraft landed at Miami International airport around 6:10 p.m. local time today,” the Federal Aviation Administration says. ”The flight originated from Las Americas International airport in the Dominican Republic and was headed to Miami International Airport.”

According to local news reports, all passengers evacuated the aircraft. Miami International airport says that three passengers were transported to hospital with “minor injuries”.

The accident appears to have completely destroyed the aircraft, which carried the registration HI1064. According to Cirium fleets data, the airframe was 31.5 years old.

Red Air operates three aircraft of the ageing type.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) adds, ”NTSB is sending a team of investigators to Miami following today’s gear collapse and runway excursion of an MD-82 jetliner at Miami International Airport. Investigators will arrive on scene tomorrow.”

The Dominican carrier launched flights in November 2021, and currently operates two daily connections between that country’s capital Santo Domingo and Miami.

One of the local news stations showed cell phone video taken while going down the slide. Only got a glimpse of it, but seems like an odd priority. "Hang on, gotta film this for the 'gram"

"A McDonnell-Douglas MD-80 belonging to Dominican Republic carrier Red Air crashed when making an emergency landing at Miami International airport on 21 June."

What was the original emergency ? I haven't seen it mentioned in other accounts.

I stand to be corrected but there cannot have been an original declared emergency or the fire trucks would have been ready and waiting. The story is that the main port gear collapsed for, as yet, unknown reasons.

Red Air Landing Gear Collapse & Fire, KMIA, 21 Jun 2022
 

Surprised this hasn't made it to these pages yet. Witnesses are saying a tyre burst on landing, the aircraft bounced and landed hard, collapsing the landing gear and causing a fire. CNN report here: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/21/us/mi...ire/index.html

The first MD-80, fuselage 909, experienced a landing hard enough for the tail to depart. The gear did not collapse.

Going backwards off the runway and into soft sand will take out the gear. That was demonstrated by fuselage 917.

What did they do to this one?

Happily, on this occasion the grass was short ...

Video can be found here:

Don't forget your water, would be a waste.

Still curious about what appears to be heavy damage to the radome …

first thought is substantial birdstrike damage …

second a collapsed NLG in combination with a steeper grassy slope than can be seen from the video’s.. with the radome digging in or the radome flipping open when the gear collapsed…

If the approach video is of this flight then the radome appears intact,
and hitting the G/S antenna or other object after the excursion might indeed explain the radome and right wing ‘root’ damage, and the subsequent fire … as posted by fivegirlkit below..

My reaction was the ridiculously quick evac from door 3L right into the port engine intake that could hardly have feasibly been shut down by then, that complete absence of slides and the huge delay in opening door 1L.
Do MD83s not even have slides? Surely not?

My MD-80 series experience was a very long time ago. My recollection is slides with manual girt bars on the forward and rear doors but no slides on the over-wing exits.

Is this a long landing followed by a runway excursion? There seems to be heavy braking or defective braking judging by the prolonged smoke. Does anyone know if it was a stable approach?

If the video in post #4 was indeed taken on that actual day then the answer is yes.

LH gear collapse, runway excursion, glideslope antenna hit, fuel leak/fire, self evacuation.

In the first 5 seconds of the video in post #1 we can see the right wing high, and the left wing dragging on the ground. Thus it seems that the LH main gear failed (the reason for that will be the root-cause of this accident).
The aircraft departs the runway to the left, hits the glideslope antenna (radome damage and right wing debris), loses its undercarriage when traversing the grass, and has a small fire fed by the right wing fuel tank damage.
Then the video on post #6. The unsupervised passengers next to the over-wing exits then see the smoke and start an evacuation - the engines are still spooling down when the video starts, and normally the captain would not initiate an evacuation with the engines running. Both sides were opened, but it seems the evacuation was only on the left side. Then, some time later (59s into the video) the crew/captain initiates the evacuation command, and door 1L was opened, a few seconds before the fire trucks arrived.

A good outcome.

Filming and taking a carry-on - that'll help! :rolleyes:

Do you mean the answer is yes and yes? Or yes and no, or no and yes?

Is it just my poor, aging eyes or does the left main gear look like it's not quite straight in the post #4 video prior to touchdown? It might just be the parallax of the recorded image.

My bad, there were indeed two questions and I was in fact only answering the last one concerning a stable approach. The video in #4 would suggest that it was a stable approach.

My eyes are not what they used to be, but I do not see what others are seeing. It looks to me that the gear only failed as the aircraft left the runway.

I do see extended wheel smoke prior to excursion suggestive of heavy braking or possible defect. I did not find many clues after a brief look at ATC and ADS-B. Any further clues?

Passenger carrying luggage on evacuation
 

Would it be possible to have central locking on overhead bins which is activated on final descent? That would prevent people blocking egress as they try to open overhead bins and block them from carrying luggage on evacuation. It might also stop the carnage of a passengers leaping out of their seats to open the overhead bins before the plane has even reached the gate!!

In an accident, they would make things even worse. Not going to happen.

No such thing as "3L" door. Two doors at the front: Forward Entrance Door (1L), Forward Service Door (1R). At the back: Rear Service Door (2L), and the Aft Entrance Door, which is at the tailcone/aft airstairs. Only ONE door on the right side of jet (1R). All three doors (1L, 1R, and 2L) have evacuation slides. If the aft tailcone is jettisoned, an evacuation slide is activated. Otherwise, rear airstairs are available through the tail.

In addition to the doors, there are four overwing emergency exit "doors," two on each side. On the Mad Dogs I flew (for 18 years... MD-88/90), the emergency overwing exits were not connected to any warning or status light system... which means that if someone decides to open them, you have no indication in the cockpit. The reason it took so long for the left forward (1L) door to open is probably due to the crew performing the Emergency Evacuation checklist... shutting down engines before commanding an evacuation. That implies to me that the people evacuating through the overwing exits did so without direction.

Oh... forgot to add that the overwing exits on the DC-9 and variants do not have slides... the passengers are to slide off the flaps at the trailing edge of the wing.

Check again. The port wing is already on the ground before the aircraft veers off the runway.

Juan Browne gives his take on this.
Majors on uncommanded evacuation and how the pax may have a different perspective to those at the front.
Whoever took the video looks to be standing four square on the asphalt. Odd what people will risk for 2 seconds of fame.

So, nothing new about the investigation into this accident...no preliminary report ? I see the wreckage has been moved to another part of the airport.

Prelim is basically after 30 days … so 20-22 nd of July

FYI:

https://aviation-safety.net/database...?id=20220621-1