Sunday, March 21, 2010

Incident: Turkish Airlines B738 at Zurich on Mar 21st 2010, tail strike on takeoff

"Incident: Turkish Airlines B738 at Zurich on Mar 21st 2010, tail strike on takeoff
By Simon Hradecky, created Sunday, Mar 21st 2010 22:53Z, last updated Sunday, Mar 21st 2010 22:53Z

A Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800, registration TC-JFI performing flight TK-1908 from Zurich (Switzerland) to Istanbul Ataturk (Turkey), struck its tail onto runway 28 while departing Zurich. The airplane levelled off at 8000 feet and returned to Zurich for a safe landing on runway 14 20 minutes later."

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