A Singapore Airlines
(SIA) flight caught fire while making emergency landing at Changi Airport on
Monday morning, June 27th, local media reported.
The SIA flight,
departed at 2:05am, but about two hours into
the flight the Pilot announced
there was an engine problem and the flight would return to Singapore,
The aircraft right
engine caught fire after the aircraft { a boeing 777-300ER} touched down at the
Changi airport at 6:50 am {2250GMT}
Emergency services put
out the fire and there were no injuries to the 222 passengers and 19 Crew members
on board.
The only accident SIA
has had was a flight from Singapore to Los Angeles via Taipei, where it crashed
on October 31, 2000 into construction equipment on the Taiwan Taiyuan
International Airport after takeoff from the wrong runway. The crash killed 83
of the 179 people on board.
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