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sri_bom · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 2365 Location: Singapore

Plane gutted at Japanese airport

The plane burst into flames as it sat on the airport tarmac

Plane fire footage
A Taiwanese China Airlines plane has burst into flames at Naha airport, on the Japanese island of Okinawa.
All 165 people on board survived, with some escaping just seconds before the plane exploded into a huge fireball.

TV images showed flames and smoke billowing from the Boeing 737-800, and the pilot jumping out of the cockpit window as the plane exploded.

Some reports said the left engine of the plane caught fire, but the airline said the cause was not yet known.

"Everything was normal, including take-off and landing, until the pilots were told the airplane was on fire," China Airlines spokesman Johnson Sun said.

"Then the crew on board immediately took the due procedure to evacuate all the passengers."

Major setback

The plane had been on a routine flight from the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, to the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, carrying 157 passengers and eight crew.

In pictures: plane on fire

Airport officials told Kyodo news agency that black smoke and fire could be seen billowing from the plane just eight minutes after it had landed.

Once the fire had been extinguished, an hour later, the plane was found to have broken into two.

Japanese TV initially reported that two crew members were rushed to hospital, but airline officials said all eight were safe.

The BBC's Caroline Gluck in Taipei says the incident is a major setback for the Taiwanese flag carrier, which once had one of the worst safety records for international airlines.

The airline suffered several crashes during the 1990s, and in 2002 one of its fleet crashed into the sea near the island of Penghu with 225 passengers and crew on board.

Plane gutted at Japanese airport

The plane burst into flames as it sat on the airport tarmac

Plane fire footage
A Taiwanese China Airlines plane has burst into flames at Naha airport, on the Japanese island of Okinawa.
All 165 people on board survived, with some escaping just seconds before the plane exploded into a huge fireball.

TV images showed flames and smoke billowing from the Boeing 737-800, and the pilot jumping out of the cockpit window as the plane exploded.

Some reports said the left engine of the plane caught fire, but the airline said the cause was not yet known.

"Everything was normal, including take-off and landing, until the pilots were told the airplane was on fire," China Airlines spokesman Johnson Sun said.

"Then the crew on board immediately took the due procedure to evacuate all the passengers."

Major setback

The plane had been on a routine flight from the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, to the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, carrying 157 passengers and eight crew.

In pictures: plane on fire

Airport officials told Kyodo news agency that black smoke and fire could be seen billowing from the plane just eight minutes after it had landed.

Once the fire had been extinguished, an hour later, the plane was found to have broken into two.

Japanese TV initially reported that two crew members were rushed to hospital, but airline officials said all eight were safe.

The BBC's Caroline Gluck in Taipei says the incident is a major setback for the Taiwanese flag carrier, which once had one of the worst safety records for international airlines.

The airline suffered several crashes during the 1990s, and in 2002 one of its fleet crashed into the sea near the island of Penghu with 225 passengers and crew on board.

Source; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6954397.stm
Click on the link to see the video of the burning plane.

Sri_Bom

Nimish · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject:

Rather shocking to hear/see about this incident. It was really great that everyone escaped unhurt. Sad to see the a/c being wiped out!

Vishal Jolapara · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject:

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HAWK21M · Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:06 pm Post subject:

AD PL2007-18-51 was released yesterday.
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Worldliner777 · Member Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 8

This is really tragic, luckly no one was hurt. Quite suprised that after everybody disembarked it caught on fire? Shocked

HAWK21M · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject:

Reading the AD will give the reason for the fuel leak.
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