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Lufthansa plane en route to Ethiopia catches fire

July 6th, 2009 |  |  2 Comments

Sana’a, Yemen (NewsYemen) — Yemeni families gathered at the Sana’a Airport Friday night over news that a Lufthansa plane caught fire due to emergency landing at Frankfurt International Airport few minutes after taking off from the same airport.

The incident resulted in the flight delay from 09:00 pm on Friday until 01:00 am on Saturday (local time), said sources at the Sana’a Airport.

A Lufthansa plane, A330, which was en route to Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, had to abruptly land again due to a technical fault, some passengers who arrived on board another plane told NewsYemen.

The front tries of the plane exploded and the plane started sliding on the ground and then a small fire caught the plane, but firemen could put it out, said a passenger.

Frequent Airbus incidents raise more questions on the level of safety of the Airbus planes as four similar emergency landing incidents occurred last month in Russia and Australia and one Air France crashed on June 1 with 228 on board and finally the Yemenia airliner A310 crash on June 30.

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2 Comments to “Lufthansa plane en route to Ethiopia catches fire”

  1. Tezibt says:

    Boycot Ethiopian ailines fly Lufthansa and tell the banks catch me in heaven.

    [Reply]

    July 7th, 2009 at 12:58 AM

  2. Mike says:

    So, Yemen Airlines (Yemenia?) is fighting back. After all Airbus A330 aircrafts are not safe. The incident in the Commoros is not actually the fault of the airline(maintenance issues) but of Airbus.
    Better own up your mistake, apologize for the loss of lives and- come up with something better. Because Airbus aircrafts are used all over the world by so many airlineses.

    [Reply]

    July 7th, 2009 at 11:18 AM

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