Hundreds of passengers and crew on a Turkish Airlines aircraft to Nepal were safely evacuated Monday when the plane’s landing gear caught fire as it landed at Kathmandu airport, officials said. The right landing gear of the jet, carrying 277 passengers and 11 staff from Istanbul, caught fire on landing, Gyanendra Bhul, a spokesman for Nepal’s civil aviation authority, said.
The landing could be seen on fire. Investigations are continuing. “All the passengers are safe,” Bhul told AFP. Bhul said the incident closed the airport’s single runway for over two hours in the morning, but it has since reopened.
Turkish Airlines stated passengers were evacuated using emergency slides after “smoke was seen coming from the landing gear while taxiing”. Our authorized teams have started a technical examination of our aircraft,” wrote Yahya Ustun, a spokesman for Turkish Airlines, on social media.
Early investigations point to the smoke coming from a technical problem in a hydraulic pipe. Some of the world’s most remote and challenging runways are in the Himalayan nation, bordered by snow-capped hills and terrain that is a challenge even for expert pilots.
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