On Thursday night, a Boeing 747 cargo plane was seen spewing flames over Miami prompting an emergency landing.
It was definitely an OMG moment for witnesses filming it on the ground.
‘Oh, My God, it’s On Fire!’
It was a wild sight to see.
NBC News reports, “The airlines said in a statement that Flight 5Y095, headed for Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport in Puerto Rico,'”landed safely after experiencing an engine malfunction soon after departure from Miami International Airport.”
“The crew followed all standard procedures and safely returned to MIA. At Atlas, safety is always our top priority and we will be conducting a thorough inspection to determine the cause,” Atlas Air said.
The story continued:
The plane took off at 10:22 p.m. ET Thursday and returned to Miami at 10:30 p.m., the FAA said.
A source familiar with the investigation told NBC News on Friday that the preliminary examination of the Atlas Air engine revealed “a softball sized hole above the #2 engine.”
Cellphone video uploaded to Instagram by a Miami resident late Thursday shows a plane fly across the sky with what appears to be a trail of fire behind it.
“Oh, my God, it’s on fire! Oh, my God,” the person filming the clip is heard saying as the plane leaves a line of bright yellow and red in its wake.
“The incident in Miami is the latest in a history of issues involving Boeing,” NBC News noted. “The news comes two weeks after the Alaska Airlines flight incident, which prompted the FAA to ground certain Boeing 737 Max 9 planes across the U.S. That move thrust the nation’s air travel into chaos and caused numerous flight cancellations.”
It will remain to be seen what caused this particular fire.
But it is not something any of us would like to see again.
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