when, during a forced landing at the airport of Singapore is on fire the wing of the aircraft.
Initially, the passengers of the flight SQ368 from Singapore to Milan, rejoiced when the aircraft touched the runway. Seconds later, however, the cries of joy turned to screams of terror when passengers found that one of the two wings was on fire.
As they broadcast international media followed by minutes of agony with the passengers watching from inside the aircraft to the effort of firemen to extinguish the flames using water and retardant foam.
“It was agonizing for those five minutes. We were so close to death,” wrote one of the passengers on his account in Facebook by uploading a video of 49 seconds with the flames have covered the wing of the plane.
According to Singapore Airlines, the fire occurred in the right engine after a warning for an oil leak which forced the pilots to return to the airport of Singapore two hours after the flight’s departure for Milan.
PANIC on a flight of Singapore Airlines when the plane caught fire and…
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