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By Simon Hradecky, created Monday, Sep 26th 2011 16:26Z, last updated Monday, Sep 26th 2011 18:49Z Right hand engine

(Photo: Margarita Aponte) An Aeropostal Douglas DC-9-50, registration YV136T performing flight VH-342 from Caracas to Puerto Ordaz (Venezuela) with 125 passengers and 5 crew, made a hard touch down at Puerto Ordaz causing both engines' (JT8D) pylons and support structures at the airframe to crack and distort nearly separating the engines from the airframe. The airplane slowed safely, stopped on the runway and was shut down. No injuries occurred, the aircraft received substantial damage. The passengers disembarked onto the runway.



The aircraft was later towed off the runway.



No Metars and no local weather station data of Puerto Ordaz/Ciudad Guayana are available.



On May 2nd 1980, while conducting certification flights for the MD-80 series on the DC-9-Super 80 registration N980DC, a test pilot unintentionally produced a hard landing, which caused tremendeous flexing of the whole airframe resulting in the tail to separate (see video below).





N980DC's hard landing in 1980 during certification flight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pk1N6GzeOo



Both engines visible (Photos: Lorena Canas):













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