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Not a landing to be proud of!

On 19 January 2021, the crew of two of this West Atlantic B737 freighter (G-JMCY, msn 25114), having arrived as flight NPT05L from East Midlands, made such a hard landing at Exeter's runway 26 (with very bad dents in the fuselage as a result) that the Royal Mail was unable to unload the mail.

The Boeing rolled out without further incident but pictures show damage which is beyond economical repair.

G-JMCY started life as N1786B (which pretty much all Boeing 737 aircraft have as an initial test registration) in October 1994. Two months later it was delivered to Alaska Airlines as N783AS. They operated the 737 for fifteen years, until it was sold to Aeroflot Don.

Aeroflot Don (based in Roston-on-Don) gave it VQ-BAO as registration, and moved it on to Donavia Airlines less than three months later, in September 2009. Donavia had the pleasure of this Boeing for six years, before it was flown to Shanghai-Pudong (China), to be converted to freighter. That process took six months, before being delivered to West Atlantic, in March 2016.

West Atlantic enjoyed its service flying freight around Europe for almost five years, until today, when a hard landing sealed its fate.