Lufthansa plane with 490 passengers makes 'control landing' at Delhi airport after wheel catches fire


According to a news agency report, a wheel of a Lufthansa aircraft caught fire while landing at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) on Monday night. PTI.

The wide-body A380 aircraft, which operated flight LH 762 from Munich, landed safely at the Delhi airport.

The report quoted sources as saying that a fire was seen in one of the wheels of the Lufthansa plane during landing.

The cause of the fire is not yet known.

The Lufthansa flight, carrying about 490 passengers, made a controlled landing at the airport.

“While LH762 landed safely in Delhi, a short-term technical registration of the aircraft was required due to lack of availability of spare parts after the controlled landing. Safety is our top priority at Lufthansa,” an airline spokesperson said on Tuesday. said in a statement.

The report said that as the aircraft had to undergo inspection and spare parts were not immediately available, the return flight LH 763 to Munich was cancelled.

Lufthansa said the DAIMC aircraft is scheduled to operate flight LH 763 from the national capital to Munich on July 3.

The return flight was canceled after the boarding pass was issued to the passengers.

Last month, an Air Canada plane carrying 389 passengers and 13 crew members caught fire minutes after takeoff.

The flight was on June 5 from Toronto to Paris.

This incident was caught on camera.

The videos show fire shooting from one of the Boeing 777 jet's engines while it was still climbing.

Later, the plane returned safely to Toronto airport with no injuries or casualties.

In a statement, Air Canada said: “Video posted on the Internet of the incident shows the engine in a compressor stall, which can happen with a turbine engine when its aerodynamics are affected. This can be caused by a variety of factors, but the result is that the airflow through the engine is interrupted which further ignites the fuel under the engine, causing the flames seen in the video. This engine itself I am not a fire.”

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