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| Belfast plane: Emergency declared as engine goes on fire | |
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| An emergency has been declared at Belfast International Airport after the engine of a plane went on fire. | An emergency has been declared at Belfast International Airport after the engine of a plane went on fire. |
| The Flybe flight was travelling from Glasgow to George Best Belfast City Airport but was diverted. | The Flybe flight was travelling from Glasgow to George Best Belfast City Airport but was diverted. |
| The ambulance service said all 76 passengers and four crew were taken off the plane safely. One person was taken to hospital as a precaution. | |
| Flybe confirmed the flight was diverted due a small engine fire "which was extinguished before landing". | |
| Quintin Oliver, who was on the BE130 flight, said one of emergency exits did not have steps so passengers had to jump about six feet onto the runway. | |
| 'Burst into flames' | |
| He said that some passengers noticed the fire half-way into the flight. | |
| "It's a short 20 to 25 minute flight and there was a visible shudder throughout the plane and those on the left hand side behind the engine clearly saw it burst into flames," he said. | |
| "Some of them described it as a burning rocket, as the flames were shooting out the back and the plane lurched a little, not dramatically, but a little as it presumably stabilised on the second engine. | |
| "There was a lot of apprehension. There was no hysteria. The staff were as reassuring as they could be but they were visibly shaken, as well, which doesn't exactly command confidence amongst the passengers." | |
| Flybe said: "The emergency services attended as a routine and precautionary measure. | |
| "Passengers disembarked the aircraft safely and will be transferred onto Belfast City Airport by road transport. | |
| "At no time was the safety and wellbeing of passengers compromised." |