Terrifying moment passengers leap from plane emergency exit as flames billow from engine

Scared passengers evacuated a level astatine Sentani Airport successful Papua Province, Indonesia, aft 1 rider spotted flames billowing from the motor and jumped retired of the exigency exit

Chilling footage has captured the infinitesimal terrified passengers jumped retired of a plane’s exigency exit aft flames began billowing from the aircraft’s motor connected the runway.

The Boeing 737-500 craft caught occurrence astatine Sentani Airport successful Jayapura, Papua Province, Indonesia, connected November 5, conscionable earlier take-off sparking chaos onboard. A rider noticed the occurrence and panicked, opening the exigency doorway portion screaming to different travellers. And past dozens of spooked flyers followed suit, pushing and shoving their mode to the exit connected the Trigana Air plane.

A clip shows passengers gathered connected the tarmac having near the level portion others sprout down the evacuation slide. The plane, Flight IL237, was bound for the municipality of Wamena and had 121 passengers connected committee astatine the time.

It led to the formation being cancelled portion 2 others were besides delayed owed to the occurrence astatine the airport, arsenic reported by NeedToKnow. Airport information caput Iptu Wajedi said that it is mean for determination to beryllium flames erstwhile the motor is started and that a rider panicked astatine seeing it.

He said: “When the exhaust gases deed for the archetypal time, sometimes a occurrence breaks out. Seeing this, passengers were shocked and tried to flight from the fire. So everyone scattered from the level successful fear.

"All the passengers were capable to get disconnected the level and are present successful the waiting room.” He added: “We are trying to find the individuality of the rider who was the archetypal to accidental that the level was connected fire.”

Airport spokesperson Surya Eka said: “The Trigana Air level with formation codification IL237, a Boeing 737-500 from Sentani Airport successful Jayapura to Wamena, was cancelled due to the fact that a rider abruptly opened the exigency doorway erstwhile helium saw occurrence coming retired of the plane's engine.”

He said “four passengers were injured” owed to the pushing and shoving to get disconnected the plane. The injured travellers were treated astatine the Health Quarantine Centre.

Eka added: “The incidental caused the plane, which was expected to transportation 121 passengers to Wamena, to not instrumentality off.” He said they are presently waiting for the National Transportation Safety Committee to transportation retired an probe into the origin of the fire.