Passengers evacuate Qantas plane via emergency slides at Sydney airport

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SYDNEY: Passengers on a Qantas Airways flight evacuated their plane via emergency slides at Australia's Sydney airport on Sunday (Dec 15) after ...

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that the plane was stuck on the tarmac after landing and smoke began to fill the cabin."We were on the runway waiting to be towed in and we started to smell burning," the ABC quoted passenger Dillon Parker as saying.

A Qantas spokeswomen told journalists at Sydney airport that it was her understanding that there was mist in the cabin. "I think perhaps some of the hydraulic fluid was pumped in by the air-conditioning system, I haven't heard of any indications of smoke," the spokeswomen said in a televised press conference.One passenger, Ally Kemp, said on Twitter that the experience was"terrifying".

"Just had to evacuate my flight to Perth after engineering issues. Everyone had to exit the plane via slide onto Sydney tarmac after the cabin filled with smoke and the captain screamed evacuate," she tweeted.

 

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