This Week's Adventures in Boeing > Engine catches fire just before take-off in Italy; Flames break out just after landing in Vegas

 

Ryanair Boeing jet evacuated after flames

shoot out of engine before takeoff

By 

Isabel Keane

Published Oct. 3, 2024

 Updated Oct. 3, 2024, 9:48 a.m. ET 

A Boeing jet with nearly 200 people onboard was evacuated in Italy early Thursday after flames were seen shooting from an engine.

Firefighters were called to Brindisi Airport as fumes were spotted outside the Ryanair plane just before takeoff, with photos showing flames around the left engine.

Ummm. It looks like the right engine to me! Does this sentence indicate that the airport does not have full-time firefighters?

All 184 passengers on the Boeing 737 were evacuated from the smoking plane safely, the airline said. 

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A Boeing jet with nearly 200 people onboard was evacuated in Italy early Thursday after flames were seen shooting from an engine.

“Flight FR8826 from Brindisi to Turin was delayed this morning after cabin crew observed fumes on the outside of the aircraft,” Ryanair said in a statement. 

“Passengers were disembarked without incident and returned to the terminal by bus.”

Brindisi Airport, in the southeastern region of Puglia, closed for some time after the incident but had reopened by late morning. 

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All 184 passengers on the Boeing 737 were evacuated from the plane safely, the airline said. 

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Ryanair said it planned to use a spare aircraft to fly affected passengers to Turin.

In a statement to Italian media, the airport said the closure was “necessary” for the safety of travelers. 

“The problem, which occurred when the aircraft was already aligned at the head for take-off, required the evacuation of passengers via emergency slides,” the airport said. 

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“The problem, which occurred when the aircraft was already aligned at the head for take-off, required the evacuation of passengers via emergency slides,” the airport said. 

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“All operations were carried out with maximum safety for passengers and crew.”

The terrifying incident comes two days after the tires of a Ryanair plane exploded as the aircraft landed in Milan.

While Boeing seems to be the most popular incident-prone airplane, it is not the only one. This incident seems to involve an Airbus, although confirmation of that is hard to find.

Flames shoot out from Frontier Airlines jet

as it landed in Las Vegas

By 

Todd Venezia and

 

Carly Ortiz-Lytle

Published Oct. 5, 2024, 7:53 p.m. ET 

A plane burst into flames as it landed at a Las Vegas airport on Saturday, as the Frontier Airlines flight experienced a “hard landing”, viral video shows.

Billows of smoke and flames shot out from the area of the landing gear of Frontier Airlines flight 1326 as it landed at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to reports.

Frontier Airlines says their pilots smelled the smoke and immediately declared an emergency but it’s unclear if they knew the severity of the fire.

The flight from San Diego to Las Vegas ended in a scary manner when flames burst out.

Smoke eaters were on the scene within seconds – dousing the plane with streams of foam and preventing the fire from spreading or causing further damage.

The advantage of having on-sight dedicated firefighters.

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The airline reported that there were no injuries to the crew and passengers. Everyone was safely evacuated via airstairs to the gate.

They also said in that statement that the “aircraft landed safely”. Frontier says it is investigating what caused the fire.

X user Tyler Herrick is the videographer who captured the video and posted the now viral clip.

"That Makes Me Smart"! Sure!

If you have been following this blog for awhile you know that I haven't paid a lot of attention to the presidential race in the USA. You may even know that I do not like 'reality TV' nor do I like the 'theatre of the absurd', both of which describe the last year and a half of American electioneering. Consequently, I did not watch the big debate last night; I was happy to watch a few highlights, although I'm not sure that's the appropriate word. What I heard was disturbing but very telling.

Hillary Clinton missed a great opportunity last night to destroy Donald Trump; whether she didn't hear his remark or just wasn't ready for it, only she knows. But when she announced that Trump had paid zero dollars in taxes for some years (I'm not sure how she found that out, it seems unlikely that it was public information), Trump interjected with the comment, "That makes me smart"! Does it? Maybe, but saying it was a pretty stupid thing to do for several reasons:

1. He's calling everyone else in America who pays taxes - stupid for doing so.

2. That sets an example for Americans to emulate. If All Americans were 'smart', there would be no government, no police, no military, no justice system, no prison system, no food and drug control, etc., etc. Society would completely collapse into anarchy.

3. If Trump becomes President, he would have to deal with that very problem of falling tax revenues. Consequently, he would have to raise taxes in many areas and eliminate tax breaks, ie mortgages. God forbid he should attempt to tax the wealthy.

4. Trump has as much as admitted that the entire government, military, police, etc., etc, systems are being carried on the backs of middle income Americans who, obviously, aren't very 'smart'. 

5. That means that Trump and many other extremely wealthy people do not support the American military, police or firefighters. They seem quite happy with allowing middle income Americans to shoulder all that responsibility. Their responsibility is to their own greed, not to America.

They are quite happy to send Americans into war zones where they know some will come back in body bags, or missing some parts, because many of America's wealthy benefit financially from Americans using their weapons, etc. And, all too often, those soldiers are fighting an enemy using American weapons as well. All the more profit for American arms manufacturers to hide in off-shore accounts away from the IRS.

One of the reasons middle Americans are supporting Trump is because he is rogue; he's not in the pockets of the 1% who are telling Congress and the Senate how to vote on any bill concerning them. And that's refreshing, the thought of the 1% not being able to control the government. It is, however, wishful thinking, for two reasons:

1. Trump is one of the 1%, so how would his policies differ from the others?

2. If he did attempt to make some significant changes to benefit middle-income Americans at the expense of the tax-free 1%, he would be stymied at every turn by Congress and the Senate who are still in the pockets of the rich and tax-free.