All 450 passengers and 18 crew members were safely evacuated and no one was injured in the fire.
A passenger plane of the Indonesian airline Garuda Indonesia made an emergency landing due to an engine fire. The Independent reported this.
The Boeing 747-400 with 450 passengers on board was flying from the Indonesian city of Makassar to Medina (Saudi Arabia) and returned to its departure airport after noticing the fire.
The airline’s chief, Irfan Setiaputra, said an investigation into the incident had been launched.
It is known that all 450 passengers and 18 crew members were safely evacuated, and no one was injured in the fire.
Terra Avia on ops for Garuda Indonesia Boeing 747-400 (ER-BOS, built 2001) experienced a brief engine fire during the take-off round from runway 21 at Makassar-Intl Airport(WAAA) , Indonesia. The flight pilots #GA1105 in Madinah continued the climb, entered a holding pattern… pic.twitter.com/6zAjxQunRe
— JACDEC (@JacdecNew) May 15, 2024
Earlier it was reported that in Norway a rescue helicopter fell into the sea. One person died and five others were injured.
Source: korrespondent
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