A Vietnam Airlines Boeing 777-200 aircraft flying from Ho Chi Minh City to Tokyo has one of its engines on fire almost 1 hour after arrival at NRT. The aircraft landed at 07:41 Jul 30 (local time) at NRT. All the passengers disembarked normally at the gate. The right engine started to emit smoke and then burn after about 1 hour at the gate. The fire was put out soon by firefighters.
I assume no one is on board at the time except some cleaning staff or crews preparing for the return trip. Don't know if operations at NRT (such as those at adjacent gates) are disrupted.
From Ming Pao newspaper in HongKong:
越航客機抵日後引擎起火 (11:16)
2008年7月30日
越南航空公司一架波音777客機,在日本東京成田機場降落後,右邊引擎冒煙起火。
事發在當地時間今早7時41分,該架客機由越南胡志明市飛抵東京後,右邊引擎冒煙,機師將飛機泊到客運站,乘客陸續下機,約一小時後,引掣起火,在場戒備的消防員隨即將火撲熄。
I assume no one is on board at the time except some cleaning staff or crews preparing for the return trip. Don't know if operations at NRT (such as those at adjacent gates) are disrupted.
From Ming Pao newspaper in HongKong:
越航客機抵日後引擎起火 (11:16)
2008年7月30日
越南航空公司一架波音777客機,在日本東京成田機場降落後,右邊引擎冒煙起火。
事發在當地時間今早7時41分,該架客機由越南胡志明市飛抵東京後,右邊引擎冒煙,機師將飛機泊到客運站,乘客陸續下機,約一小時後,引掣起火,在場戒備的消防員隨即將火撲熄。
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