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Southwest Airlines, emergency landing due to fire coming from wheels on the back right landing gear

Phoenix, USA - No injured among 127 passengers

A Southwest Airlines flight out of Austin landed at an airport in Phoenix yesterday with flames coming from a right rear wheel. Fire crews quickly doused the smoking wheels on the runway, Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport spokeswoman Julie Rodriguez said. Airline officials said none of the 127 passengers on Flight 2511 were injured. Southwest Airlines spokeswoman, Whitney Eichinger, said the plane's...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1091057
Rome, Italy, 06/17/2008 13:06
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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