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Aircraft catches fire on runway
Brisbane News.Net
Thursday 24th July, 2008
In New Delhi, an Air Mauritius plane with 241 passengers and 11 crew on board had to abort take off after the pilot noticed a fire in the undercarriage of the aircraft.
The incident occurred at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport.
The cause of the fire has been put down to an technical fault in the aircraft.
The Air Mauritius plane was to fly to the Mauritius capital Port Louis.
Officials say flight movements at the airport were normal and all passengers from the flight were evacuated and taken to a hotel.
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Sumitavo Biswas
07-24-08, 10:57 AM |
Aircraft catches fire on runway
The Flights should be properly checked technically before take off so that such incidents should not happen in future
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SodnacGuy
07-24-08, 09:37 PM |
The Air Mauritius plane was to fly to the Mauritius capital Port Louis.
There is only one airport in Mauritius and it is not in Port Louis.
If it was to land in Port Louis it would have crashed anyway.
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ANITA DERUS
07-24-08, 10:07 PM |
KIND AMENDMENT PLEASE
WE CONFIRM THAT THE INCIDENT WAS DUE TO A BIRD STRIKE AND NOT FIRE OR TECHNICAL PROBLEM AS PER NEWS RELEASE FROM OUR HEAD OFFICE IN MAURITIUS.THANKS
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dinesh
07-24-08, 02:06 PM |
Is It True
I see on www.airmauritius.com that the reason to this incident is a bird strike and not a fire..
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D.B. Ghoderao
08-04-08, 04:32 AM |
Sahara Mumbai Hindi News strip on 4th Aug. 2008
Today we seen a running news strip between 7.15am to 7.30am. on Sahara Mumbai (newschannel) in Hindi that “Bird-hit plane, wheel catches fire at Delhi airport” . Hope this was an old news i.e. last month July. I phoned to air mauritious office,Mumbai.
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