Indonesia: Plane makes emergency landing after engine catches fire

Indonesia One of the national airlines of Passenger aircraft It had to make an emergency landing shortly following takeoff due to an engine fire.

The Garuda Indonesia flight carrying 468 passengers including crew members crashed on Wednesday when it took off from the Indonesian city of Makassar to the Saudi Arabian city of Madinah.

The Boeing 747 plane was immediately diverted back to the airport following an engine fire appeared, the airline said in a statement.

After the emergency landing, all 450 Haj passengers and 18 crew members were safely evacuated and no one was injured in the incident, the statement said.

An international firm that monitors air accident statistics JACDEC Videos shared on social media show that the engine caught fire immediately following the plane took off.

Garuda president and director Irfan Setiaputra said in a statement: ‘The decision (to make an emergency landing) was taken shortly following take-off by the pilot-in-command in view of engine problems as sparks were seen in one of the engines. Further testing was required following.’

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He further said that the plane has been grounded as the incident is being investigated.

Passengers on the flight were provided free accommodation before boarding an alternative flight later that day, he said.

It was the latest in a string of technical problems involving planes in Indonesia, whose notorious airline has been banned from flying to their countries by the United States and the European Union since 2007. The ban was lifted by the US in 2016 and by the European Union in 2018.

Since 1945, the Far Eastern country has recorded 106 civilian airline accidents, killing 2,305 people, according to the Aviation Safety Network.

On January 25 this year, the flight of the Indonesian airline ‘Batik Air’ Two pilots reportedly slept in the cockpit for 28 minutes As a result, a flight from Sulawesi to Jakarta with 153 passengers was diverted from its route.

In 2021, a passenger plane of another Indonesian airline ‘Shri Wijaya Air’ crashed into the Java Sea following taking off from the airport. 62 passengers and crew members were killed in the accident.