{"id":217436,"date":"2023-12-08T08:59:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T08:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=217436"},"modified":"2023-12-08T08:59:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T08:59:55","slug":"boeing-737-jet-makes-emergency-landing-after-micro-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/world-news\/boeing-737-jet-makes-emergency-landing-after-micro-explosions\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing 737 jet makes emergency landing after 'micro-explosions'"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Boeing 737 passenger jet was forced to make an emergency landing after ‘micro-explosions’ caused both engines to catch fire during take-off.<\/p>\n
The S7 airline plane with 175 passengers was flying from Novosibirsk – Russia’s third largest city – to capital city Moscow.<\/p>\n
The fires started as the plane was on the runway taking off, passengers said.<\/p>\n
The small explosions led to fires in both engines of a Boeing 737, resulting in an emergency landing.<\/p>\n
A video filmed by a passenger shows the alarming sight of engine fire at around 6.30am today. The flames can be seen flickering violently in the passenger windows during the nighttime blaze.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The S7 airline plane with 175 passengers was flying from Novosibirsk – Russia ‘s third largest city – to capital city Moscow.\u00a0The fires started as the plane was on the runway taking off, passengers said<\/p>\n
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A video filmed by a passenger shows the alarming sight of engine fire at around 6.30am today. The flames can be seen flickering violently in the passenger windows during the nighttime blaze<\/p>\n
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The flames inside the cabin seen through the windows<\/p>\n
‘While climbing, sparks and flames suddenly flew from both engines,’ reported Shot media.<\/p>\n
‘The right engine, next to which I was sitting, caught fire while still on the runway, several flames burst out,’ said one passenger.<\/p>\n
‘We took off and it flared up once every 10 to 20 seconds.<\/p>\n
‘Then the second engine caught fire, and they flashed simultaneously.’<\/p>\n
The pilots immediately called for an emergency landing and brought the aircraft down safely at Novosibirsk’s Tolmachevo Airport with no casualties among passengers or crew.<\/p>\n
The emergency services were on ‘high alert’ for the landing which came some 20 minutes after take-off, according to those on board.<\/p>\n
The captain told the passengers on landing that both engines were ‘out of order’ and the aircraft needed to be towed from the runaway after the brakes overheated.<\/p>\n
‘During landing, the captain said that the brakes caught fire,’ a passenger told ASTRA media.<\/p>\n
‘All passengers have already got off.’<\/p>\n
They were bussed to the terminal and told they would have to wait eight hours for a replacement plane to fly them to Moscow.<\/p>\n
The cause was engine surging – a ‘violation of gas-dynamic stability with micro-explosions’, reported the Eastern Interregional Investigation Department for Transport of the Russian Investigative Committee.<\/p>\n
The fires started as the plane was on the runway taking off, said passengers.<\/p>\n
It is the second day in succession that Russia has been hit by such a terrifying incident.<\/p>\n
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A day earlier a Tu-204 cargo aircraft suffered an engine ‘explosion’ heard from the ground after take-off from Ulan-Ude, also in Siberia. Flames can be seen during the flight<\/p>\n
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The aircraft on fire yesterday\u00a0after take-off from Ulan-Ude in Siberia<\/p>\n
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Footage showed the aircraft ablaze as it jettisoned fuel and made an emergency landing\u00a0<\/p>\n
A day earlier a Tu-204 cargo aircraft suffered an engine ‘explosion’ heard from the ground after take-off from Ulan-Ude, also in Siberia.<\/p>\n
Footage showed the aircraft ablaze as it jettisoned fuel and made an emergency landing.<\/p>\n
A woman witness Lyubov Pichueva said: ‘I heard a powerful explosion coming from above.<\/p>\n
‘At first I thought it was fireworks, but the sound was too strange.’<\/p>\n
She said: ‘It was very scary.’<\/p>\n
An investigation is underway by the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor’s Office.<\/p>\n
Russia is suffering an unprecedented spate of air incidents amid signs that Western sanctions are hampering efforts to maintain and service planes, with problems obtaining spare parts.<\/p>\n
Since the spring of 2022, airlines have been requiring staff not to enter equipment defects in flight log books, said one report.<\/p>\n
A former Nordwind airline pilot said many pilots are relying on ‘Russian luck.’<\/p>\n
In the first eight months of this year, there were 120 air accidents in Russia involving civil aircraft operated by Russian airlines.<\/p>\n
This is more than double the number in recent years despite significantly fewer flights as a result of Putin’s war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n