Alaska Airlines Flight 1288 skilled points with the plane’s touchdown gear whereas taxiing to its gate at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Calif., on Sunday evening.

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Alaska Airlines Flight 1288 skilled points with the plane’s touchdown gear whereas taxiing to its gate at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Calif., on Sunday evening.

Orange County Fire Authority

An Alaska Airlines flight made a tough touchdown amid Tropical Storm Hilary late Sunday, sending sparks flying into the evening sky at John Wayne Airport in Southern California.

Flight 1288 was touring from Seattle to Santa Ana in Orange County, when it seems to have hit the bottom, dragging its left wing down the quick tarmac, in line with a video posted to social media.

Passengers on board could be heard screaming through the minute-long video because the aircraft makes sharp contact with the bottom. Meanwhile, shiny white and orange streaks could be seen out of a left-hand passenger window.

“There’s sparks outside! Why are there sparks outside?,” one particular person could be heard saying.

Alaska Airline officers defined that the aircraft “experienced an issue soon after landing” within the rain at 11:15 p.m. native time.

“The aircraft was unable to taxi to the gate due to an issue with its landing gear,” officers stated in a press release, including that the Boeing 737 “parked on a taxiway, where it remains.”

The flight was carrying 106 passengers and 6 crew members, who had been safely deplaned and transported by bus to the terminal. No one was injured.

Rain and winds gusty winds had been reported on the time

At the time of the touchdown the climate overhead was overcast and wet, and the complete area was experiencing its first tropical storm in 84 years. According to the National Weather Service winds had been gusting as much as 30 mph.

Photographs taken by the Orange County Fire Authority, which responded to the emergency, present the off-kilter aircraft with the left engine resting on the runway.

Additional photos posted to X, the platform previously often called Twitter, present among the harm sustained by the left wing.

The FAA says it’s investigating the incident.

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The FAA says it’s investigating the incident.

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Airport design makes for scary landings

John Wayne Airport has an unusually quick runway, measuring simply 5,700 feet. By comparability, the shortest runway at Los Angeles International Airport is just below 9,000 feet.

The quick distance means pilots should take off close to full energy to get the required momentum to get off the bottom rapidly. Similarly, landings are particularly bumpy as a result of pilots need to hit the brakes onerous to sluggish the aircraft on the quick runway.