The A-310 did a high speed abort and the nose gear collapsed right behind us: We were parked at E-41 ad had landed 1/2 earlier.
I was trying to sleep for the 3 hour ground stop, but heard popping noises like engines stalling in full reverse. Did not think much of it and just rolled over in bed.
5 minuttes later some guy comes running up the ladder and screams "aircraft on fire, evacuate, evacuate...
Turns out all the smoke from the A-310s melting rubber had blown over to us and freaked out the Pakistani loaders, they thought we were on fire and ran for their life.
Some of them thought of waking up the flight crew. Thanks mates.
We went to the hotel for a good rest and came back for a 1500Z departure.
The airport was remarkable calm with no log-jams on the taxi-ways or too much radio clutter. The controllers did a hell of a good job in my opinion.
(In case somebody asked...
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The 310 was hauled off and parked 2 over from us. We got a good look, the engines were flat underneath like the B-737-300s
Remind me to carry more gas next time I go to a single-runway airport...
