Plane crash lands on its nose in Slovakia

2012-11-16 11,699

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)

DHL Airbus A300F crashed at M.R. Stefanik Airport in Bratislava on Friday (16 November).

At 05:30 local time, the front chassis of the aircraft broke and the aircraft landed "on its nose".

The aircraft was transporting radioactive medical material but the freight was not damaged.

A rescue team and fire crew attended the scene but none of the three cabin crew members was harmed and no one else was injured. One runway was closed but airport traffic was not interrupted.

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