Friday, May 30, 2008

Honduras A320 Crash

The latest news says this TACA International Airlines Airbus A320 overshot the runway at the Tegucigalpa, Honduras airport. The aircraft was arriving from El Salvador. 124 passengers were aboard the aircraft, up to 4 dead, including one of the pilots. Below are a few images of the crash and a video (not of the accident) showing the typical approach into the airport where the crash occurred...it's not the easiest one out there for sure.

TACA has identified the accident aircraft as an A320-233 Airbus, Irish registration EI- TAF, series number 1374 built on January 4th 2001. Until May 29th it had accumulated 21,957 flight hours and 9,992 landings.



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