Air ambulance makes belly landing at Mumbai airport

An air ambulance lost a wheel during take-off from the Nagpur airport, but safely belly-landed at the Mumbai airport on a foam carpet.

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A foam path is an aviation safety practice of spreading a layer of fire suppression foam on an airport runway prior to an emergency landing.

Following a crash-landing, liquids leaking from the aircraft, which are not yet burning, start evaporating, thereby resulting in forming an air-vapour mixture that is flammable or even highly explosive.

In such cases, extinguishing foam is used preventively and the liquid is covered with a foam carpet as a vapor barrier.

Airport fire brigades create a foam carpet in order to secure an emergency landing if the landing gear of an aircraft is not extended or is unstable. This is done in order to suppress sparking and burning of any aircraft metals due to friction with the runway surface.