New Photo of the Week: Miami Air accidented plane

Last night, Miami Air International B738 N732MA overrun the runway at Jacksonville,FL on arrival from Guantanamo (check HERE)
Fortunatelly no personal casualties, just minor injured people.

Curiously, got this plane at Madeira, back in April 2010, on a XL Airways Germany flight, as D-AXLI with hybrid Miami Air / XL livery...a unique catch

A few more shots of that night...

New Photo of the Week - C-135FR - the Top of a Great Week

Despite all the mess created by the vulcano ashes of the Icelandic vulcano (I could copy/paste the name of it but it's definitely unpronounceable...) this was a great week regarding air traffic at Madeira, with lots of interesting and diferent stuff.
The Cherry on Top of the Cake was the French Stratotanker that visited us last Friday, staying on night-stop, specially for a military aviation fan like myself (although I'm definitely surrended to airliners...)

But there was many other stuff, like Sata's A310 with the new livery (CS-TKN), that visited us twice, the PoAF C-295 and the C-130 which made quite a low pass to compliment the French that had just arrived, the hybrid XL/Miami Air, the Smartwings, the OE-LNP in Austrian livery, the HLX Haribo and many other more regular but still interesting traffic...
Spend a lot of fuel this week on trips to the airport, on everyday of the every but it's defnitely Great to have this kind traffic.
Anyway, now it's time to start processing and sharing here all that stuf...I'll try to do it during next week....

XL Germany by Night

Yesterday afternoon noticed at the Madeira Airports traffic page a flight that wasn't there earlier: a XL Germany flight.
Was arriving in the night but, with a couple of diferent liveries, was well worth to keep an eye on the registration and it really payed: it was D-AXLI, the Miami Air / XL Hybrid!

Don't know if it has been here before but I never had got it...

After dinner, the trip to the airport was really worth it.

The most usual spotters were around, so it was also very nice for some chat during the spotting.

Love those polished metal parts...

...and the fuselage is shining and also quite reflective.

Notice the all fuselage, since the tail reflected on the inside of the engine?

Ready for push-back (Funny name for the plane)...

This one is probably my favorite, with the lights, the guys moving around and the bright shinning reflections on the fuselage...

I know that this last one has some rather strange colors on the TAP's tail (the pic's over-exposed...) but the taxiing XL, on the back really make a nice effect...