Frontier Airlines passenger describes terrifying landing after plane’s wheel breaks off

A Frontier Airlines rider recounted however 1 of the plane’s wheels broke disconnected during a terrifying landing successful Puerto Rico connected Tuesday.

Melani Gonzalez Wharton wrote connected Facebook that her family’s formation from Florida to Puerto Rico became a "horrific experience" arsenic the level tried to onshore astatine Luis Munoz Marin International Airport.

"For a fewer minutes I thought it was the extremity of our communicative present connected earth," Wharton wrote connected Facebook.

Wharton described watching the ordeal unfold done her model connected the flight.

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No injuries were instantly reported aft the hard landing astatine Luis Munoz Marin International Airport successful Puerto Rico. (iStock)

"We were landing and the landing was precise bad, assertive and astatine a precocious speed, this caused 1 of the tires connected the beforehand of the level to interruption and drawback fire," she wrote.

Frontier Flight 5306 was coming successful for a landing with 228 passengers erstwhile the Airbus A321 experienced a "mechanical problem" that resulted successful 1 of the wheels connected its landing cogwheel to interruption off, Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Dia reported.

The incidental happened arsenic the level was landing astatine Luis Munoz Marin International Airport successful Puerto Rico. (Erika P. Rodriguez/ Bloomberg, File)

Flight researcher Luis Irizarry told Puerto Rico’s WAPA-TV that it appeared the flight’s co-pilot, who is young, was successful bid astatine the clip of the incidental earlier the quick-thinking skipper took implicit to safely land.

Wharton described 1 of the plane's wheels catching occurrence and breaking disconnected arsenic the craft tried to land. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images, File)

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Wharton wrote connected Facebook that "the world is that we were flying successful the hands of inexperts," referring to the young co-pilot.

No injuries were instantly reported.

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