Airbus A320 Caught fire

[Heliarctic]

According to the bulgarian news agency: BTA
An A320 from the the company Wizz air caught fire upon landing in Sofia airport. The fire raged for 20 min before it was put out.
None of the 156 passengers were hurt
Apparently a blown tyre was said to be the culprit.
The plane had taken off from Venice in Italy.
Haven´t seen it in any english speaking sites yet, and can´t confirm it anywhere else.
Heliarctic

[Farrell]

The fire raged for 20 min before it was put out.


Sigh.......

[Heliarctic]

Farrell....Sigh, yes i know
Translated it as it was written

[eu01]

Emergency landing at Sofia Airport (ROUNDUP) http://www.focus-fen.net/Images/space.gif http://www.focus-fen.net/Images/space.gif http://www.focus-fen.net/Images/space.gif
1 May 2010 | 20:58 | FOCUS News Agency http://www.focus-fen.net/Images/space.gif http://www.focus-fen.net/Images/space.gif http://www.focus-fen.net/Images/space.gif
Sofia. An aircraft made an emergency landing at Sofia airport, the Ministry of Interior told FOCUS News Agency.

146 passengers of a regular flight from Treviso, Italy to Sofia have been evacuated from Wizz Air jet, press centre of the Ministry of Interior announced.
The plane with 146 passengers aboard has punctuated a tire of the landing gear. The tire had set on fire due to the friction. The fire has been immediately extinguished by the firefighter teams. No injured people or other material damages have been reported. Passengers have been evacuated and transported to Terminal 1 by bus. The incident occurred at about 16.35 at Sofia Airport.
Over 20 company cars and 3 fire trucks responded to the alert of the jet that suffered an accident at Sofia Airport, one of the passengers in the plane Emil Simeonov told FOCUS News Agency.
Simeonov said that the two tires of the landing gear had fired. According to passengers there were no flames just smoke.

The plane had cut the main power and switched on the emergency power due to the occurred problem. Passengers were evacuated some 15min after the landing, as they were waiting for the firefighters to extinguish the landing gear.
According to Simeonov there was no panic among the passengers. Some of them just started to pray and crossed themselves. The crew of the plane informed the passengers that there was a “small problem”.

The 146 passengers landed in Sofia on a flight from Treviso, Italy.
There are delays of flights due to the incident.
Source: Focus (http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n218394)

[vapilot2004]

that gave me a chuckle D3G :ok:

[Capot]

as they were waiting for the firefighters to extinguish the landing gear.Hmmm. I know a wheel/brake fire may not be a big deal, but things can sometimes get out of hand unexpectedly and quickly.

I realise that if the aircraft has no integral steps, getting steps up to the aircraft, if they can be obtained in the frst place, might be difficult with the RFFS milling about, and that popping the slides might be seen as a bit drastic, but...

I am just a little uncertain about keeping passengers aboard a burning aircraft, even if the fire is very small and apparently easily containable, if that really is what happened.

Maybe the fire was put out in seconds, and the 15 minutes wait was for other reasons, such as finding the steps.

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

<<punctuated a tire of the landing gear>>

Ran over a comma?

[Jamespaul]

Good job by the whole crew!