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Air India aircraft engine on fire, passengers safe

Mumbai, India - The accident while taxiing at Mumbai airport

The engine of an Air India Boeing 747 aircraft, flight AI829 from Mumbai to Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) with 213 passengers and 15 crewmembers on board, caught fire today while taxiing before take off. Panic among the passengers that have been safely evacuated through emergency slides. However, the fire has been extinguished. According to some experts the cause of the fire would have been a fuel leak...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1108937
Rome, Italy, 09/04/2009 15:37
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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