Aeropostal DC-9 Hard Landing Nearly Tears Off Engines

I like how the Huffington Post quotes a commenter on airliners.net. What's next? The New York Times quoting a Youtube comment? WSJ quoting Yahoo Questions?

Everyone walked away...I say good landing

any landing you can walk away from is a good landing and there is several hunderd thousand in repairs

missing something here: emergency landing and that caused the pylons to crack? what caused the emergency landing?

I wonder of what they speak when they say "A PARTIAL RUPTURE OF BOTH ENGINES"?

Poor aircraft design. Seems like on the old DC-9 planes, the engine pylons weaken. The gear should have collapsed before the engines ripped off. Or perhaps the engines came off in flight?

".....made an emergency landing in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela after a partial rupture of its two engines." This wouold imply that the pylons cracked IN FLIGHT, prior to the landing. I find that hard to believe. Someoen needs to get their facts straight, or remember proper sentence structure.

The only fact I can glean is that nobody is dead. Don't know anything about Aeropostal, but all airlines are not created equal. Riding with some is more like taking a tour bus in the Andes mountains with Juan Valdez Bus Service and Creamatory.

Way to go DC-9! Made another safe landing! And held together!

I have never seen such a failure. I suspect someone in the maintenance organization is going to catch hell. Looks like someone did not put all the parts back they way they should have or truly inspect the mounts. Odd that the #2 engine's thrust reverser appears deployed. I do not think you have cracks on both sides and they fail at the same time. Appears to be a DC9-50.

Very Old Airframe DC-9-50(36 yr old) + poor maintenance = perfect recipe for disaster. Heard that pilots lost power aproaching to land that leads the hard landing.Seems that a corroded and cracked engines pylons and airframe parts leads the engines got riped. Venezuela have the largest fleet of oldest planes like DC-9 and B737-200 on service with very poor maintanence ,in less a week thta was 5 accidents or incidents in that country for mechanical failures related a B737 and DC-9..it is ironic that a country with a lot of money have the worst fleets in Southamerica.

Hahahaha Robert, Well played sir!

Guess they don't build em like they used to...

Imagine what would have happened if that was an Airbus or even worse a CRJ.

Reminds me of the 1987 hard landing of an Eastern Air Lines DC-9 in Pensacola...the fuselage just behind the wings separated at every attachment point except the bottom, and was dragged down the runway.

There's a reason my Venezuelan friends caringly call it AeroMortale.