Tibet Airlines jet aborts takeoff, catches fire, causing minor injuries from evacuation

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BEIJING — China's Tibet Airlines said all passengers and crew had been evacuated from an Airbus A319 plane that caught fire after an aborted takeoff in the southwestern city of Chongqing on Thursday (May 12).

There were no deaths and only minor injuries among the 113 passengers and nine crew members on board, the airline said in a statement.

The pilots had interrupted the takeoff in line with procedures after experiencing an abnormality, CAAC said in a statement, leading to an engine scrape and fire after the plane veered off the runway.The incident came less than two months after the deadly crash of a China Eastern Airlines plane led CAAC to launch sector-wide inspections to find potential safety lapses.

The plane involved is a nine-year-old A319, one of the smallest versions of the A320 family. It is powered by CFM56 engines from CFM International, a joint venture between General Electric and Safran, according to Airfleets.net.

 

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