From CBC:
WebPosted Fri Aug 24 07:07:21 2001
AZORES ISLANDS - Nine passengers were sent to hospital in shock when a Canadian passenger jet made an emergency landing and caught fire in the Azores islands on Friday.
The Air Transat jet was on its way from Toronto to Lisbon when it began leaking fuel over the Atlantic ocean.
After detecting the fuel leak, the pilot pointed the Airbus 330 for the Azores' Lajes airport.
By the time it got there, the plane was completely without power. Witnesses said it glided toward the airport before bouncing to a stop on the runway, its landing gear in flames.
The fire was quickly put out.
The 293 passengers escaped without injury, but nine went to hospital suffering from shock.
An emergency spokesman said tires blew out on the jet, and fuel leaked onto the runway. The airport was closed afterwards.
Information about the number of passengers and crew on board was not immediately available.
Written by CBC News Online staff
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According to a source of mine in Air Transat, one of their A330s - KTS - has been subject to serious fuel leak problems for some time now and an engineer has been travelling with it contstantly. It would be interesting to see if this is the aircraft involved in today's incident.