Passengers evacuated from plane onto Denver runway after landing gear issue sparked fire and left 1 injured
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, more than 150 passengers on a American airline flight from Denver International Airport on Saturday were wounded and evacuated to the runway after fire.
After the Boeing 737 Max 8 had a “maintenance problem an with an aircraft tire before departure, the Emergency Personnel and Denver Airlines and Denver International Airport responded to the DENVER Fire Department at the airport and were evacuated on the track.
Evacuation is the last of a series of worrying aviation events at Denver International Airport – Sixth Most Intensive Airport in the world. Duzine passengers were forced in March stop On the wing of an American airline plane, one of the engines evacuates the plane after flaming. A month later, a United Airlines plane hit An animal and fire at the departure.
On Saturday, with 173 passengers and six crew members and the passengers on the plane to Miami International Airport panicked when they heard a high explosion and see flames before they were released on a plane.
The combination of blowing tires and the slowdown of the aircraft during braking resulted in a brake fever. extinguished According to American Airlines, by the Denver Fire Department.
Havayolu, “All customers and crew has collapsed safely and was left out of service to be inspected by our aircraft maintenance team. We thank our team members for their professionalism and apologize to our customers for their experience,” he said.
Five people were evaluated at the scene and another person was evaluated at a door and was taken to hospital with a minor injury according to the airport and airline.
The plane was planned to leave the door at 13:12 local time. FlightFAA said the incident occurred around 14:45. Flight data 240 flights from Denver International Airport are delayed on Saturday evening.
According to the airline, customers will go to Miami on a spare plane today. FAA is investigating the incident.
The evacuation comes a day later Difficulty For passengers on Southwest Airlines flight. According to Flight Monitoring Site Flightradar24, a private Hawker Hunter Hunter Jeti exceeded less than two miles in a few hundred meters of the Boeing 737 aircraft.
Passengers heard a high explosion during the ‘traumatized’ event
Minturn, who went to Chilean Santiago for a ski trip with the club team, said that a 17 -year -old passenger from Colorado, a 17 -year -old passenger, said that the ordeal of Saturday was “a kind of traumatized”.
Armistead, as the plane went down the track, passengers heard a high explosion and believed that the tire exploded.
“The plane began to tremble and really swing badly, CNN said CNN. “We started to lean on the left side of the runway, and then he heard that the sound of the wind lifted the brakes of the plane and really forced them.”
Only a few seats down, Armstead’s teammate 16 -year -old Margaret Gustafson said that he had a clear view from the window and saw the care problem.
Gustafson said he knew that something was wrong when he saw that he had come out of the plane.
“That’s when I started to panic completely,” he said.
When he heard a great explosion, Gustafson wasn’t sure where noise came from.
Bazı Some of us thought we were just hitting something, and then we really started making swavere on the track, G Gustafson said. “I caught the hand of my friend who was in front of me because we didn’t really know what happened.”
The terrible moment was greeted with a tremendous panic among the passengers.
Armistead said, “A passenger was screaming, ‘We will all die,” he said. “Another passenger did not sit and cooperate, and that’s why it was too much panic.”
Armstead said that the passengers were lined up behind the plane and that they were stuck on the plane. He remembered that the entire evacuation process took about 10 to 15 minutes.
Although the ski trip plans have been out of the rail, the flight of his teammates was planned again tomorrow morning.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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