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Melbourne Airport suspended flights: Thai Airways plane blocked on the runway
Melbourne, Australia - A tyre blew, a landing gear on fire
More than 250 passengers have been evacuated today from an airplane of Thai Airways because of a tyre blew during landing at Melbourne Airport: no passenger, including crew, was hurt. The aircraft, an A-340, was en route from Bangkok and it would touch down hardly damaging wheels: one undercarriage was even on fire. The plane rolled down the runway and stopped at the intersection with another runway....
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 129742
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency