It ain’t a miracle, it’s engineering.
LOT Polish Airlines flight 16 from Newark made a gear-up landing at Warsaw airport around 1:42 PM local time with 230 aboard. The 1997 Boeing 767-300ER (SP-LPC) sustained heavy damage upon landing, none of the 230 aboard were injured.
UPDATE: The video has been pulled from YouTube, though the screenshots have replaced the video taken from Polish TV.
UPDATE 11:24 AM ET: Reuters has video (embedding disabled) from a different angle at the moment of touchdown on the runway.
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