MICHIGAN-based cargo airline Contract Air Cargo's turboprop Convair CV-440 crashed landed on a freight flight from Miami to Guatemala City's airport runway 19.
    As it approached the runway, the nose gear bent backwards and collapsed causing the cargo plane's left hand propeller to contact ground and penetrate the fuselage. The crash landing caused substantial damage but no injuries or deaths were reported, said Salzberg, Austria's Aviation Herald.
    The CV-440 Metropolitan has a maximum payload of 49,700 pounds and was the final piston-engined variant of what were dubbed the "Convairliners," according to a Wikipedia entry.

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