Shocking video footage shows the moment the engine of a Boeing passenger plane caught fire just after take off. The Boeing 747 - 400 was forced to make an emergency landing, returning to the airport it took off from after a “fire was observed in one of the engines” on May 15. The Garuda Indonesia aircraft was flying from the Indonesian city of Makassar to Madinah in Saudi Arabia. The 450 passengers on board and 18 crew members were evacuated and no one was hurt in the incident. The incident...
A week after a Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people skidded and burst into flames on a Senegal runway, sending at least 10 people to the hospital, another Boeing plane caught fire on Wednesday. This week's Boeing mishap occurred on a Garuda Indonesia flight heading to Saudi Arabia from Indonesia with 468 people on board, when the plane caught fire soon after takeoff (see video below). — Read the rest
Footage shows some of the dramatic moments that batteries have burst into flames, often putting refuse workers at danger. In the shocking video package, Jimmy Fitt, the Assistant District Commander for West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service explains: “We’ve seen a large rise in fires both in refuse wagons and waste sites, caused by people disposing of Lithium-Ion batteries incorrectly.” Over 1,200 fires in bin lorries and waste sites across the country were caused by improperly disposed of...