Thursday, June 11, 2009

Jetstar Flight 20 and American Airlines Flight 64 escape fire outbreaks

The series of flight events continue. Australian Jetstar A330-200 plane operating the Flight JQ 20 from Osaka to Australia's Gold Coast, made an emergency landing in Guam on Thursday morning after being confronted with a fire outbreak in the cockpit. Flight 20 was carrying 203 passengers and crew onboard (190 civilians and 13 crew) and after 4 hours into the flight, the fire ignited in the cockpit. The crew followed in-flight emergency procedures and landed the aircraft safely at Guam International Airport at 02.20am local time. Most of passangers were Japanese nationals along with a small numbers of Australians and a few overseas nationals; there were reported no injuries. Jetstar Flight 20 incident follows a similar development by American Airlines Flight 64 (Boeing 767) whose cabin caught fire on Tuesday evening. Flight 64 was en route from New York to Zurich (Switzerland) when the fire burst and determined the crew to land in Nova Scotia. In the same area a SwissAir flight crashed in 1998 due to fire causes.

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