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Sharm el Sheikh: airplane caught fire at the airport

This is an aircraft of the new Ukrainian carrier SkyUp Airlines

Today a B-737/800 plane of the Ukrainian carrier SkyUp Airlines caught fire with 196 passengers on board a few minutes after landing at Sharm el Sheikh airport. Starting from Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine, once it arrived in Egypt, flames flared up probably due to a following flammable liquid on the still hot brakes. Fortunately the inconvenience caused no casualties and the ground security personnel quickly...

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Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, 11/13/2019 11:39
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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