Delta Flight
Aircraft Catches Hearth
Passengers Flee in Emergency Evac!!!
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One other airplane flight, one other scare — this time with fireplace and thick smoke pouring out of a aircraft engine … fortunately, whereas nonetheless on the tarmac.
The entire thing was caught on digital camera by shocked onlookers — Delta Flight 1213, set to take off from Orlando Worldwide Airport en path to Atlanta Monday morning, went up in flames, with video displaying an engine fireplace blazing.
Passengers had been noticed sliding down the inflatable slides to security as fireplace rescue crews rushed in to douse the hearth.
A Delta spokesperson tells TMZ the Airbus A330 was carrying 200 passengers, 10 flight attendants, and a couple of pilots — and no accidents had been reported.
We’re advised passengers had been introduced again to the terminal and provided meals and drinks whereas Delta ready extra plane to get everybody to their last locations later as we speak.
Delta says the flight crew adopted all commonplace security procedures after recognizing flames coming from the tailpipe of one of many jet’s two engines — and upkeep will study the plane to see what went mistaken.
An Orlando Worldwide Airport rep tells TMZ … the hearth, which began at about 11:06 AM native time, was contained and extinguished. Orlando Police and Plane Rescue and Hearth Preventing personnel had been on scene investigating.
With all of the airplane mishaps recently, this newest scare simply provides gas to the rising nerves passengers are already feeling about flying.
