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Incidents and accidents: AeroTime’s commercial airline safety roundup of 2024  

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Post-accident assessment of the aircraft revealed substantial damage to the auxiliary power unit (APU) firewall bulkhead, resulting from the aircrafts aft fuselages contact with the runway surface. Inflight icing was heavily suspected as the cause of the accident, causing a loss of lift and a stall-induced spin.

Runway 235