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Landing gear of Frontier Airlines A321neo damaged during hard landing at San Juan

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Last updated: April 18, 2025, 18:49 UTC
Published: Friday, April 18, 2025, at 18:31 UTC
Category: Incident
Author: AIRLIVE contibutors

Airline: Frontier Airlines
Aircraft: Airbus A321-271NX
Data: F9 F93506 N607FR SJU
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A Frontier Airlines flight from Orlando made a hard landing at San Juan, damaging the aircraft.

A Frontier Airlines Airbus A321neo, registration N607FR performing flight F93506 from Orlando touched down hard on San Juan’s runway 10 Wednesday Apr 16, 2025.

The airport subsequently closed both runways and informed arriving flights there was debris on the runways following a hard landing.

The flight F93506 went around and circled for 27 minutes before attempting a new landing 2 hours and 24 minutes after departure on runway 08.

According to The Aviation Herald, the left hand engine emitted a continuous streak of flames for several seconds during climb out.

TERRIFYING MOMENT ABOARD A FRONTIER AIRLINES A320NEO!

Frontier flight from Orlando to San Juan suffered a left engine malfunction mid-air — passengers saw flames coming from the exhaust.

Despite the scare, the LEAP-1A-powered jet landed safely at SJU.#AviationNews #Breaking pic.twitter.com/yZIg5DT2Xg

— Turbine Traveller (@Turbinetraveler) April 16, 2025

The FAA reported the aircraft struck the runway hard damaging the landing gear at San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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