Fire on Air India flight put out, passengers safe 04 Sep 2009.

A fire on an Air India flight with 228 on board was extinguished on Friday and all passengers safely evacuated, a spokesman for Mumbai airport said.


Air India's Boeing 747 aircraft stands on the tarmac after one of its engines caught fire, at the Mumbai airport September 4, 2009. A fire on an Air India flight with 228 on board was extinguished on Friday and all passengers safely evacuated, a spokesman for Mumbai airport said.


Fire on Air India flight put out, passengers safe 04 Sep 2009 07:50:51 GMT
Source: Reuters

MUMBAI, Sept 4 (Reuters) - A fire on an Air India [AI.U]> flight with 228 on board was extinguished on Friday and all passengers safely evacuated, a spokesman for Mumbai airport said.

The Boeing 747 flight was bound for Riyadh from Mumbai, India's busiest airport.

"One of the engines caught fire while the aircraft was taxiing to the runway. Passengers were evacuated via slides," said the spokesman, Manish Kalghatgi.

There were 213 passengers and 15 crew aboard, said a spokeswoman for Air India, the national carrier. The cause of the fire was being investigated, she said. (Reporting by Rina Chandran; Editing by Krittivas Mukherjee).