Air Europa 737 off the runway at Lanzarote

The Daily Mail is reporting it as a crash but have refrained from calling it a jumbo.

The press here reporting on the first revenue flight of the Qantas A380 from Melb to LAX referred to it as an Airbus A300

Right behind the fence there is a wooden boardwalk and a small beach then the sea!!! People right behind the fence would not be able to see the 737 coming either, you have to be about 50 yards either side of the threshold to see the runway.

Jeez that was close! There’s only about 50ft between the threshold and the fence at ACE and so it wasn’t much of an over-run, but still could have been nasty had it gone through the fence. At that time of morning there’s usually a big group of spotters (including me several weeks of the year!) standing right on the other side of that fence. There’s then about 100ft across the beach before you hit the runway approach lights. It’s very rare for them to land on RWY21, due to high terrain at that end of the airport. In my 12 times on the island the only aircraft I’ve seen land on RWY21 are the Binter ATR’s. Will be interested to hear how it happened…

I noticed that too.

That was a bit blommin lucky, Did you notice that the strobes were still flashing away on the wing at tail?, cockpit crew must of left in a hurry.

The aircraft is not damaged by the over-run and can fly. The Daily Mail is reporting it as a crash but have refrained from calling it a jumbo.

That’s not good! At least no-one was hurt and the aircraft doesn’t look to be too horrendously damaged.

I wonder if anyone was out with a camera around that time.

Paul