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Crews respond to airplane engine fire at Wellington Airport (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 2 months ago by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

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Just after 4pm this afternoon NZ5366 travelling from Christchurch to Wellington landed safely after smoke was seen coming from the engine," Air New Zealand Head of Flight Operations, Hugh Pearce said in a statement.

"The aircraft was met by emergency services and all passengers have disembarked safely.

Pearce later added that the cause remains under investigation.

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[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Wow! That's going to be some paperwork for someone... Aviation investigations don't muck around

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The full vid was from this fella live streaming planes for hours:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mYAEcZlLX0&t=13586s

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago

That's awesome, thanks for posting! It honestly looks a lot less dramatic here, bunch of smoke, flames out the engine for a second, then lots of waiting.

The streamer says maybe the pilots hit the extinguisher so I guess the engines have in built fire extinguishers.

A comment from a viewer popped up asking if it was a bird strike, which is plausible I think.