Apuneger From Belgium, joined Sep 2000, 3026 posts, RR: 13 Posted (12 years 1 month 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 1064 times:
This evening, at 22h15 local time (GMT+1+DST), a Russian freight plane, bound for Algeria, got off the runway at Ostend airport, Belgium.
Fortunately, nobody of the crew members was injured.
More information is missing at the moment. I don't know the exact circumstances. Did it abort it's take-off, or did it return when the crew saw that something was wrong?
I'm sure that surrounders of the airport will once again take their griefs about the airport (unsafe operations, very low approaches,...) to the local politicians.
BelugaBoy From Belgium, joined Mar 2001, 139 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (12 years 1 month 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 1005 times:
The Belgian radio this morning reported that the pilot got the warning that there was a fire in one of the engines. He tried to abort takeof but the plane ended up in a gras field beside the runway.
A newspaper sais it ended up approx 100m of an shopping centre.
I haven't seen any pictures or TV images yet so I don't know that this is actually true.
They also say nobody was hurt but the plane is serious damage. There is no info about what the plane was carying at the time.
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