Turkish Airline flight with 288 people on board catches fire after landing | News World

A Turkish Airlines jet caught fire while landing at Nepal’s most important airport, forcing the airport to shut down.

The flight from Istanbul with 277 passengers landed at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport, with fire and smoke billowing from the right-side landing gear.

Emergency crews responded to regulate the fireplace on the Airbus 330, and passengers were safely evacuated, based on airport officials.

Several planes certain for Kathmandu were placed on hold while officials investigated and attempted to clear the one runway on the airport.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said the fireplace broke out in the correct rear tyre of the Airbus.

‘Technical inspections of the aircraft have been initiated by our teams. Initial ​assessments indicate ​that ⁠the smoke was attributable to a technical malfunction in a hydraulic ​pipe,’ Yahya Ustun, the airline’s ​senior ⁠vice chairman of communications said.

One other flight has been planned for the return of passengers to their destinations.

Nepal has relatively frequent plane crashes as a consequence of its mountainous terrain and variable weather, which make flying conditions difficult.

In 2015, a Turkish Airlines jet landing in dense fog in Kathmandu skidded off a slippery runway, shutting down the airport for several days.

No injuries were reported, and the plane was later towed out of the airport and converted right into a museum.

In 2023, an aeroplane carrying 72 people crashed near an airport in central Nepal.

The domestic Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu caught on fire moments before crashing.

It was described because the Himalayan country’s worst air incident in almost five years.

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