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Old 10th Jun 2009, 22:56
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The official AENA report remains the same. Iberworld (Carlyle Group) Flight IND 6201 A320-200 from Gran Canaria to Oslo took off normally at 8:05. Minutes later, pilots requested to turn around and land on an emergency due to fire alert in one engine. Landed "normally" at 8:15 with the engine turned off and fire extinguished. Emergency services were activated, but their action was unnecessary, as there was no need for particularly urgent evacuation or further signs of fire.

16 passangers, out of 189 PAX+Crew, voluntarely refused to take the sustitution flight the company chartered from Air Europa and that took off to the original destination a few hours later (scheduled for 12:30, departed 13:05). They were offered an overnight stay in the island.

Several passengers phoned-in Norwegian media taking about people crying on board, with flames and loud noises from the malfunctioning engine (thumping etc consistant with object ingestion, parts breakage or other malfunctions, but NOT, i.e. a large explosion, nor uncontained particle ejections, etc).

Understandably, some passengers suffered panic/hysteria attacks in wake of the recent Air France crash.

Cause of the (presumed) fire still under investigation, which is kind of slow since investigators and extra personnel would have to be flown in from >2.5h away. No public announcements on their side.

The company press report: "Crew proceeded to return to the airport of origin a few minutes after take off due to a technical problem on one of the engines".

Airplane remains parked in the airport, with no visible damage from the outside.
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