Orlando, Florida – A Delta Air Lines plane caught fire on Monday before it was supposed to take off at a Florida central airport, forcing passenger evacuation, airport officials said.
There was no injury report during the fire on the plane at Orlando International Airport, Delta said in a statement.
A recent wave of aeronautical disasters and close calls to the United States has attracted fears concerning trips by plane, although the flight remains a safe way of traveling. The field accidents included an plane that crashed and turned to landing in Toronto and a Japan Airlines aircraft that cut a Delta plane parked while he was in taxi at Seattle airport. An American airplane Airlines caught fire in Denver last month.
The engine fire broke out on Delta Air Lines on Monday morning on Monday morning while the plane was at the ramp before a planned departure from Orlando in Atlanta, airport officials said on social networks.
The passengers were evacuated and the airport fire rescue and fire -fighting team said the airport press release.
The Airbus A330 plane had 282 customers, 10 on -board agents and two drivers, according to Delta.
“Delta Flight Crews followed the procedures to evacuate the passenger cabin when flames in the exhaust pipe of one of the two engines of the aircraft were observed,” Delta said in a statement.
Maintenance teams will examine the plane in order to determine the cause of the fire, said Delta.
