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Video: Flames Shoot Out Of Plane's Engine In Bursts Just After Take-Off

The Air Canada flight returned to Toronto airport after its engine caught hearth

New Delhi:

An Air Canada flight, headed for Paris with 389 passengers and 13 crew, caught hearth inside minutes of taking off from the Toronto Pearson Worldwide Airport on Friday.

The flight crew instantly declared “PAN-PAN”, or ‘Attainable Help Wanted’ – the usual misery sign internationally, and averted a potential disaster because the plane returned to the airport with none accidents or casualties.

Excellent work by the pilots and their air site visitors controllers, coping with a backfiring engine on takeoff. Heavy aircraft stuffed with gasoline, low cloud thunderstorms, repeated compressor stalls. Calm, competent, skilled – nicely completed!
Particulars: https://t.co/VaJeEdpzcn@AirCanada pic.twitter.com/7aOHyFsR29

— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) June 7, 2024

On Friday, the Boeing 777 wide-body plane started departure at 12:17 am (Toronto time). Shortly after take-off, at 12:39 am (Toronto time), because the flight was nonetheless ascending over the runway, the air site visitors controller (ATC) noticed the primary blast of sparks from the aircraft’s proper engine and promptly alerted the crew. The backfiring engine was caught on digicam by individuals on the bottom.

The incident provides to the lengthy checklist of mishaps which were reported on Boeing’s craft over the previous a number of months.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield shared a video of the plane flying with an engine on hearth and wrote: “Excellent work by the pilots and their air site visitors controllers, coping with a backfiring engine on takeoff. Heavy aircraft stuffed with gasoline, low cloud thunderstorms, repeated compressor stalls. Calm, competent, skilled – nicely completed!”

He additionally shared a reconstruction video, posted on YouTube by ‘You possibly can see ATC’, of what adopted together with a recording of the pilot’s communication with ATC. Based on the video, the flight was 1,000 ft over the bottom when Air Canada pilots had been alerted about smoke and hearth. The flight path within the video confirmed the craft persevering with its ascent earlier than cruising regular at 3,000 ft. The pilots then deftly turned the craft round and returned to Toronto in lightning and showers scattered at 2,800 ft.

The ATC cleared Runway 23 for the distressed plane to land with hearth autos standing by for help.

Inside 4 minutes of touchdown, the plane continued taxiing, in keeping with the video.

Air Canada put out an announcement on X and stated {that a} stalled compressor triggered the fireplace. “The plane landed usually, and it was met by first responder autos as a precaution earlier than it taxied to the gate by itself.”