Mexicana says none of the 92 passengers and four crew members on board Click flight 7222 were injured last night when the aircraft performed a main gear-up landing in Monterrey. Click is Mexicana's low fare unit.
The Fokker 100 (XA-SHJ) was flying from Mexico City to Nuevo Laredo when the crew discovered a problem with the main landing gear as it approached the airport. According to news reports, both main landing gear failed to extend.
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The pilots diverted to Monterrey given its longer runway and "the installed capacity of emergency response teams," said Mexicana in a statement. Passengers exited the aircraft on the runway after the landing.
Mexicana is in the process of phasing out its leased Fokker 100 aircraft with 25 leased Boeing 717s, a transition it hopes to complete by year's end. Flightglobal's ACAS fleet database shows Click as currently having 15 717s and 19 Fokker 100s.
In December, a Merpati Nusantara Fokker 100 (PK-MJD) made an emergency landing in west Timor after its left main landing gear failed to deploy.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news
