On Wednesday, 5th Junea Boeing 700-300ER With almost 400 passengers on board it had to leave Toronto for Paris. It was supposed to be a seven-hour flight, but the plane had to make a emergency landing a few minutes after taking off.
The airplane had flown only 3,300 feet when the pilots asked to return immediately. The event was recorded by people who were nearby and the images allowed us to see the moment in which The engine caught fire and flashed fire several times.
The Boeing 777 on flight AC872 was driven back to Toronto Pearson International Airport and He landed 50 minutes later on the same runway. He was received by fire trucks to attend to the explosion that occurred, according to information from the local media ‘CP24’.
For now, the airline confirmed the incident and said the plane would be taken out of service to be evaluated by professionals. The origin and causes of the explosion have not been confirmed, but aviation experts assume that it could have been a compressor loss.
“It refers to the disruption of normal air flow through the jet engine. When the compressor blades stall, air that is normally forced backward cannot continue forward. “Sometimes it can create an explosion and cause air to escape forward and backward simultaneously,” pilot and civil aviation expert Manuel Represa Suevos wrote about this phenomenon in his blog ‘The Flight of the Great Bustard’.
The airport confirmed that the flight had taken off around 8:45 p.m. and returned almost an hour later, around 9:50 a.m. The passengers continued their journey to Paris on another plane.
Other Boeing aircraft accidents
Boeing is an American company that develops, manufactures and sells commercial aircraft, defense products and space systems to customers in more than 150 countries. Lately, they have received criticism for the numerous accidents and failures that have occurred in their ships.
On January 5, 2024, the door flew off of a Boeing 737 MAX 9 that was heading to California. Days later, on the 13th, a Boeing 737-800 made a emergency landing after the crew saw cracks in the windows. On the 20th, a Boeing 757 lost the front tire before leaving.
On March 4, of the same year, it was presented another emergency landing of a Boeing 737 when one of its engines exploded in flames in Texas. After three days, one of the landing gears fell off of a Boeing 777-20 that was going from San Francisco to Japan. He detoured towards Los Angeles.
On May 9, a Boeing 737-300 aircraft went off a track in Senegal and injured at least 10 people, four of them seriously. According to the ‘BBC’, the company will face a criminal investigation into that incident.
There are more and more questions and complaints about the safety of Boeing airplanes.
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