Singapore 777 catches fire just after emergency landing

[Randy Daytona]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...e-catches-fire-while-making-emergency-landing

A plane carrying 241 people has caught fire as it made an emergency landing at Singapore’s Changi Airport.

Passenger on Singapore Airlines Flight SQ368 from Changi Airport to Milan said they clapped as the jet made what appeared to be a smooth emergency landing. But seconds later, the right engine and wing were ablaze, with flames engulfing the right side of the jet.

No one was injured aboard the Boeing 777-300ER but the 222 passengers and 19 crew had to wait on board for several agonising minutes while emergency services sped over to the plane and doused it with water and foam.

Not sure why the captain did not call for an emergency evacuation...

 

[Brett327]

Those people are pretty calm.

 

[xj220]

All I can think about is the emergency card scene from Fight Club.

 

[jollygreen07]

Not sure why the captain did not call for an emergency evacuation...

Yeah.... I think Albie put it best when he characterized it as "criminally negligent of duty". On one hand I understand the fear of having 300 mouth-breathers milling about within a few dozen yards of responding emergency vehicles, but this could very easily have been another Saudia 163.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudia_Flight_163

 

[Flash]

"Now that's a fire!"

 

[wink]

Those people are pretty calm.

It must have been a cultural thing. You know, following authority, group dynamics and all. No matter the decision or indecision of the Captain, in the US that would have gotten a flight attendant acting unilaterally on her own judgement or passengers going rogue and blowing a door.

 

[Flash]

So for the airline guys, should they have evacuated? Keeping in mind how many fatalities have resulted from smoke inhalation in aviation mishaps I would have been inclined to 'go rogue' and gotten the hell out of there.

 

[wink]

So for the airline guys, should they have evacuated? Keeping in mind how many fatalities have resulted from smoke inhalation in aviation mishaps I would have been inclined to 'go rogue' and gotten the hell out of there.

Ahhh...in keeping with AW decorum regarding speculation...ahhh, ya know, I would have been helping you with the door (whether as a seatmate in the cabin or from the cockpit, oops, did I say that?).

 

[HAL Pilot]

So for the airline guys, should they have evacuated?

Yup.

 

[Flash]

Ahhh...in keeping with AW decorum regarding speculation...ahhh, ya know, I would have been helping you with the door (whether as a seatmate in the cabin or from the cockpit, oops, did I say that?).

Yup.

Okay, good enough for me.

I keep thinking about the Navy officer and a few others that ignored instructions to stay on the Metro train in DC last year and walked down the track to safety. It took over 40 minutes for the fire department to respond and one person died with several more injured, all the while the train kept filling up with smoke.

 

[sevenhelmet]

I was thinking if the fire dept was right there, and one whole side of the aircraft was ablaze that getting out might not be smart to try and...

Yeah, never mind. If it's on fire, I'm gonna GTFO.

And probably get hit by a fire truck, but I'll take that chance over going kaboom any day.

 

[Pags]

I'd prefer to watch an airplane burn from the outside vice inside.

 

[Jim123]

The passengers just needed the right person to motivate them.