An Air Canada flight made a scary landing at Halifax Airport in Goffs in Nova Scotia province on Saturday night, which resulted in the temporary closure of the Airport. The aircraft skidded down the runway and caught fire after the touchdown with a broken landing gear. There have been no casualties as per the latest updates. The flight was coming from St John’s city on Newfoundland Island.
Unverified videos on social media show the Air Canada plane catching fire after making scary landing.
A statement issued by the airport said the incident involved Air Canada Flight 2259, which was operated by PAL Airlines, CBC News reported. The incident happened around 9:30 pm local time. The statement does not say how many people were on the plane. The people on board were evacuated, and then taken to a hangar to be checked out by paramedics, CBC News said.
A passenger told CBC News that one of the plane’s tyres did not deploy properly upon landing. “The plane started to sit at about a 20-degree angle to the left and, as that happened, we heard a pretty loud — what almost sounded like a crash sound — as the wing of the plane started to skid along the pavement, along with what I presume was the engine,” she said. The passenger said the plane then skidded down the runway for a “decent” distance as the pilots worked to stop the plane.
“The plane shook quite a bit and we started seeing fire on the left side of the plane and smoke started coming in the windows,” she said. The airport said one of its runways has since reopened.
Meanwhile, another plane met tragic landing as fire engulfed the Jeju Air aircraft carrying 181 people when it skidded off the runway just after landing and exploded after crashing into a barrier on Sunday. The country’s emergency office said its landing gear appeared to have malfunctioned.
(With agency inputs)
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