Plane's Airfoil on Fire While in the Sky
By Mu Yi, The Beijing Times | Jul. 12, 2006
At 9PM, on 10th July, had just take-off from Beijing Capital Int'l Airport, the aircraft (Rego: B-2856) that operated flight CA1365 heading for Wuhan landed at the Beijing Capital Int'l Airport again. It's understood that, this flight departed and then met a sudden incident while in the sky, the left airfoil was on fire and white smoke appeared, which made the aircraft circle in the air then landed at Beijing Capital Int'l Airport.
"Too horrible, the plane is flying in the sky, you can watch flames coming out from the engine of left airfoil." Mr. Li who was the passenger of this flight told the reporter, he was on a business trip to Wuhan, this flight should originally take off at 3:35PM, but weather resulted in the fight delay. And it wasn't off the ground until 7:40PM, but then had to return to Beijing Capital Int'l Airport due to the incident. (Translation: CARNOC - Tao Mengping)
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