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Terror for 113 passengers: The aircraft went off the runway and caught fire

The terror was experienced by those inside aircraft of the Chinese company Tibet Airlines, when he came out of the runway this morning and caught fire at Chongqing International Airport (southwest). As it became known from the company, however, no one lost his life.

The 113 passengers and nine crew members were evacuated from the aircraft and are “safe,” according to the airline. About 40 people, who suffered minor injuries, were taken to hospital, however, according to airport authorities.

The aircraft was scheduled to operate a domestic flight from Chongqing to Ningxi, in the Tibet Autonomous Region (southwest), when the accident occurred at around 08:19 (local time; 03:09 Greek time).

“During the take-off phase, the crew noticed an anomaly and stopped the process. “The plane went off the runway,” Tibet Airlines said in a press release, adding that “the aircraft was damaged by fire.”

Video broadcast by the public television network CCTV shows an aircraft in the runway burning on one side, as a dense column of black smoke rises in the sky.

Initially, the television network reported that the destination of the flight was Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, as reported by the French News Agency.

This is the second plane crash in China in less than two months. The – still unexplained – crash of a Boeing 737-800 aircraft on March 21 in the Guangxi region (south) claimed the lives of 132 people aboard it.

This was the deadliest plane crash in nearly 30 years Chinawhere nevertheless the level of flight safety is generally considered to be high.


Source: News Beast

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