Boeing 757 Engine Bursts Into Flames Mid-flight, Forcing Emergency Landing In City Without Enough Hotel Rooms For Everyone

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Usually, it's a bully point to get a free travel to Italy. For nan passengers aboard a Condor Airlines flight on Saturday from Corfu, Greece, to Düsseldorf, Germany, however, their free travel to Italy proved perfectly terrifying, as their Boeing 757 was forced to make an emergency landing successful nan state erstwhile 1 of its engines burst into flames mid-flight, the New York Post reports. When they landed astatine nan Brindisi Airport successful confederate Italy, nan passengers ran into yet different problem: location reportedly weren't capable edifice rooms for everyone, forcing immoderate of them to walk nan nighttime successful nan airport.

Two 100 and seventy-three passengers near Corfu, on pinch 8 unit members, but erstwhile nan level reached astir 36,000 feet, passengers reportedly noticed flames coming from nan correct broadside of nan plane. Typically, you don't want to spot thing burning while you're trapped successful a metallic tube, respective miles successful nan sky, truthful it's wholly understandable that nan passengers were terrified. The bully news is, they did make it, but it doesn't alteration nan truth that they were justifiably worried that would beryllium nan extremity for them. 

"It was an incredibly horrible experience. I already sent goodbye texts because I thought, 'It's complete now,'" 1 rider told Germany's Bild. 

When contacted for a comment, a Condor Airlines spokesperson told nan Post nan motor occurrence was caused by "a chemic guidance that happened wrong nan combustion chamber." They besides added, "The logic was a parameter denotation extracurricular nan normal scope caused by a disturbance successful nan aerial travel proviso to nan engine." It isn't wholly clear what that means, exactly, but that's nan mentation they're going pinch for now. Hopefully, we will get much accusation erstwhile they reason their investigation.

As for nan edifice room issue, nan hose besides told nan Post, "Unfortunately, location was insufficient edifice capacity successful Brindisi, meaning that not each guests could beryllium accommodated successful hotels." That said, "Additional vouchers and blankets were organized astatine nan airport, and a fewer shops were allowed to stay unfastened to supply supplies. Passengers who took advantage of replacement accommodation options tin taxable their expenses for reimbursement."

That surely sounds amended than dying strapped into a burning airplane, but it's still a unsmooth woody for nan passengers who weren't fortunate capable to person edifice rooms. Hopefully, they besides person immoderate compensation for being unexpectedly forced to look their ain mortality. Money can't erase nan panic they experienced, but it does make you consciousness amended astir nan bad things that happen.