◀ Again ▶
Accidents follow one after another on American Boeing planes.
After the absurd accident in which the cabin wall was torn off during the flight, this time an accident occurred in which the engine caught fire.
Fortunately there were no casualties as it was a cargo plane without passengers, but concerns about the safety of the Boeing plane are growing.
Correspondent Kang Na-rim reports from New York.
◀ Report ▶
Red flames come out of the wings of a plane in flight.
“The world is on fire… my God!”
The plane continues downward, emitting flames and smoke.
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“Please, I have to be okay. I don’t know if they’re responding to an emergency.”
“No, it’s still like that.”
On the 18th local time, an Atlas Airlines Boeing 747 cargo plane caught fire in the engine shortly after takeoff in Miami, Florida, USA.
“Mayday, mayday, engine fire.”
The Puerto Rico-bound plane ended up making an emergency landing at Miami airport.
Since it was a cargo plane, there were no normal passengers and five crew members on board, but fortunately there were no injuries.
A Federal Aviation Administration investigation found a tennis ball-sized hole above the second of the plane’s four engines.
Just three days ago, an oxygen leak was detected on the Boeing 737 military plane carrying US Secretary of State Tony Blinken and the minister’s group was forced to disembark and take another flight.
In Japan, a crack was discovered in the cockpit window of a Boeing 737 airliner and the plane was hijacked, while a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane had a cabin wall torn off during flight, causing it to shake the passengers were scared.
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“If this had happened at a higher altitude, if people had not been wearing seatbelts, the passengers would have been thrown out of the plane and killed. It was just lucky that no one died.”
US aviation authorities have ordered emergency inspections and an indefinite flight ban on 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 planes and are evaluating whether to resume operations.
Boeing said it was responsible for the hole-in-the-plane accident and promised to strengthen quality control for its passenger planes, but as accidents continue to occur, concerns about the safety of Boeing planes are not going away.
This is Kang Na-rim from MBC News in New York.
Video Coverage: Ahn Jeong-gyu (New York) / Video Editing: Park Byeong-geun
2024-01-20 11:13:49
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