TAP Portugal flight 1971 bounced twice the runway of Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport on October 22 due to bad weather. The airport had to close their operation for several hours because of the incident.
The flight journeyed from Porto to Lisbon at the time. Debris were scattered on the runway as the passenger plane made a tough landing that rumpled its landing gear.
"TAP confirms the occurrence with an ATR aircraft TAP Express, which carried out the flight TP 1971 due to the bursting of a tire at the time of landing," a local publication reported.
Twenty passengers and four crews were on board at the time. They were all safe and landed without injury.
The team was on their sixth leg of the day and was flying in a very bad weather condition. This leads to the misalignment of the touchdown. The report came from the Portugal's Aviation Accidents Prevention and Investigation Department.
According to The Aviation Herald, "The aircraft was conducting an ILS approach to Lisbon's runway 21 when below 50 feet AGL the aircraft was "shaken" in severe rain and the aircraft touched down hard, bounced, touched down with excessive load on the nose gear a second time causing both nose wheels to separate while the nose gear strut remained intact, the aircraft bounced again and settled on the runway on third touchdown rolling out on main wheels and nose gear strut leaving a substantial trench in the runway surface and causing substantial damage to the nose gear strut."
The airport resumed their operation six hours after the incident.
Another incident occurred at Lisbon airport few weeks ago. Six Algerian nationals tried to enter Portugal illegally by jumping out of a moving TAP plane. Portugal Resident said, "The flight 'touched down in Lisbon' and the men tried opening the emergency doors when it was setting off across the tarmac hours later, bound for Argel, said RTP."
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