BY TYLER DURDEN
A DHL cargo plane snapped in half on Thursday morning after skidding off the runway at the Juan Santamaria International airport in Costa Rica.
Videos of the incident, shot by multiple people, show the Boeing 757-200 cargo jet skidding down the runway, taxiing, and turning into a ditch, then coming to a dead stop. The fuselage broke in half as firefighters rushed to the incident area.
1. A DHL cargo plane broke in two when it skidded off the runway at Costa Ricaās Juan Santamaria international airport.
The pilot requested an emergency landing shortly after takeoff due to a failure in the Boeing 757-200 jetās hydraulic system, according to UK Guardian. pic.twitter.com/i3JBLXsF9T
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