Originally published on March 29, 2014
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The pilot of a small Avianca Airlines passenger jet was forced to make an emergency crash landing in Brasilia on Friday night when the aircraft's landing gear failed to deploy.
The Avianca Airlines Fokker 100 was enroute to the Brazilian capital with 49 passengers and five crew on board. None were injured.
Reuters reports that: "The pilot calmly declared an emergency and circled the Brazilian capital to shed fuel and lower the weight of the aircraft, according to a recording of his conversation with the control tower played on Globo News television channel.
"'The plane suffered a hydraulic problem and the front landing gear did not open, so the pilot did a belly landing,' an Air Force spokesman said.
"Avianca Brazil, which has grown rapidly in the Brazilian market by opening regional routes, is owned by the Synergy Group controlled by Brazilian airline entrepreneur German Efromovich.
"Efromovich also owns Colombian airline Avianca, which has joined Taca of El Salvador to form conglomerate AviancaTaca, one of Latin America's leading carriers.
"The emergency landing closed one of Brasilia's two runways, delaying flights into Brazil's fourth largest airport."
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