250 passengers evacuated from 'crash-alarm' jet
More than 250 passengers were evacuated from a Thai Airways jet after a tyre blew, sparking several small fires, during a heavy landing today at southern Australia’s Melbourne Airport, an official said. No injuries were reported.
The Airbus A340 from Bangkok “landed heavily” on the runway, blowing out a tyre, damaging the plane’s undercarriage and sparking several fires, according to Ben Mitchell, a spokesman for Airservices Australia, the government’s air-traffic-control authority.
