Passengers flee down emergency slides after plane burst into flames on landing

Passengers were forced to fly down exigency slides erstwhile a plane”s motor caught occurrence aft landing.

Eighty 9 passengers – including young children – positive six unit managed to safely escaped the Russian craft astatine Turkey’s Antalya airdrome astatine astir 9.30pm yesterday.

The Azimuth Airlines level had arrived from the Russian Black Sea edifice of Sochi, the Turkish transport ministry said.

Dramatic footage shows passengers sliding down the inflatable slides, respective holding their luggage, arsenic flames and billowing fume emergence down them.

The ministry said the level had made an exigency landing and occurrence services were rapidly connected the country to extinguish the blaze.

It added that everyone was safely evacuated, with nary injuries reported.

Azimuth Airlines said the level had made a unsmooth landing owed to upwind shear. 

The Turkish State Meteorological Service had issued a terrible upwind informing for the portion soon earlier the incident

The proscription ministry said efforts were underway to region the craft from the runway.

Arrivals astatine the airdrome were temporarily suspended portion departures took spot from a military-run runway.

According to reports, the occurrence started successful the near motor of the plane, nevertheless the origin of the occurrence was not instantly known.

Russia’s Federal Aviation Authority, Rosaviatsiya, said it was investigating the incident.

According to formation tracking website FlightRadar24, the craft is 7 years old.

Russia is abbreviated of craft owed to Western sanctions imposed successful transportation with Moscow’s 2022 penetration of Ukraine. 

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