Aircraft in danger over TSR Timisoara RO
 

It seems an CarpatAir bound to TSR has problems at landing gear.

The News TV report an SAAB2000 from Kishinev to Timisoara 47pax-4crew. Is circling over TSR waiting for the airport to prepare the RWY. The emergency crews are in place waiting for touch down.

Foam is being laid down on the rwy at LRTR. There are 45 pax 4 crew.

Aircraft landed apparently safely all pax & crew safe and sound according to the airport speaker. Tsk GOD all is OK.

Yes indeed , seem that everything went by the book and eveybody went out of the plane safe and sound. I hope passangers will recover fast after this incident. Another happy end story! :ok:

I was seeing off a relative to Chisinau airport this morning and saw a Carpatair Fokker 100 being prepared for Chisinau-Timisoara flight. Chisinau airport webpage also sais it should have been a F100: International Chisinau Airport (Moldova)

Any clues as to why it turned to be a SAAB 2000?

''Terror in timisoara airport'' is a headline of a very known journal in romania, as I said some months ago, regardeless of the happy end of such an incident, some journalists are exagerating about that.
So I am very disappointed in reading these newspapers.......

Plane lands without gear down in Romania
 

Very little info about it at the moment but BBC (radio) reporting a plane landing on its undercarriage in Romania. 47 pax and 4 crew on board.

The Associated Press: Plane lands on its belly in Romania

It landed on its Undercarriage - no more reports as of yet.

The Associated Press: Plane lands on its belly in Romania

Sky Text in the UK has it that it landed safely on a foamed runway

For everybody aircraft is on tarmac airport live and everybody on bord sefe in his business. Landed with nose landing gear up, on foam on the RWY. Aircraft almost UNDAMAGED. SAAB-2000 registration YR-SBI. fkight crew from AIR MOLDOVA 10years with CarpatAir. Cpt. 37 F/O 47years old. Good Job Guys :D:ok::D.
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Video
 

post landing video from the site provided by yaw_damper :
Imagini cu avionul Carpatair pe pista aeroportului din Timi?oara dup? aterizarea for?at? | Realitatea .NET

From the Beeb
 

Same video, more or less, with English text

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Romanian plane survives emergency

funny thing ....
a planned emergency and the crew of the left vehice in the video are standing there watching the landing from outside the vehicle....
maybe they all asked for a window seat ,but not all got it??

As far as I know:
-the airport fire service doesn't have the special equipment needed to lay the foam carpet quickly
-the amount of water at the airport (ICAO CAT7) does not include any extra for runway foaming
By asking for runway foaming, the crew ended up with a runway not available for a long time and with less extinguishing agents in the trucks at landing.

Is runway foaming requested by Carpatair company procedures?

Well Done!
 

Carpatair Pilots, Cabiin Crew, Emergency Services;

WELL DONE! GOOD JOB!
:ok:

and Saab 2000, goooood aircraft! Well done!!

@Dani; @Old Gran' Pa Moritz
 

@Dani

Please, Dani, not again. The good (not always thaaaat goood) old time is forever gone... BTW, how many former LX's Saab A/C ended up with Carpatair Air?

@Moritz

Dear old Gran Pa Moritz S.,
I guess you must be proud of your crew and won't regret the money (not that much, but still, quite enough) you invested in Carpatair. And, I say, you're right to be proud, looking at their performance.

Now, remembering the two lethal crashes at your former airline in Switzerland, I hope you'll have a thanksful prayer for those who avoided a third one in Romania.

Dani - ex crossair bus driver by any chance??