An airliner landed safely on Monday, June 17, at Invercargill airport, on the south island of New Zealand, after a fire cut off one of its engines, the authorities announced. firefighters of the country. The original destination of Virgin Australia’s Boeing 737-800 was Melbourne.
Fire trucks greeted the plane when it arrived in Invercargill about fifty minutes after taking off from Queenstown, said Lynn Crosson, team leader for Fire and Emergency New Zealand.
The cause of the engine fire and the number of passengers on board the plane were not immediately known, the airline spokeswoman said. Queenstown Airport, Catherine Nind. Virgin Australia said in an emailed statement that the incident may have been caused by “a possible collision with a bird”.
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