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| Qatar Airways plane makes emergency landing at Istanbul airport after engine catches fire | |
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| A Qatar Airways plane has made an emergency landing in Istanbul after one of its engines reportedly caught fire. | A Qatar Airways plane has made an emergency landing in Istanbul after one of its engines reportedly caught fire. |
| Radar showed the aircraft diverting over the Marmara Sea shortly after take-off on Thursday and returning to land at Istanbul Ataturk Airport. | |
| Footage showed flames bursting out of the Airbus A330's left engine as it came in to land. | |
| Mehmet Kirazoglu told The Independent he was at a Turkish Airlines technology building near by the airport when he heard a “strange plane engine sound” overhead. | |
| “When we looked up we saw that a Qatar plane's left engine was flaming out,” he added. | |
| “It turned round towards the sea, I suppose it drained its fuel. Afterwards we learnt it landed safely.” | |
| Mr Kirazoglu said he and his colleagues could clearly see that the left engine was burning and that the aircraft’s landing gear had not been closed. | |
| The plane has landed safely and all passengers and crew were disembarked, Qatar Airways said. | |
| The flight, codenamed QR240, took off for Doha at 1.20pm local time (11.20am BST) and landed in Istanbul 40 minutes later. | The flight, codenamed QR240, took off for Doha at 1.20pm local time (11.20am BST) and landed in Istanbul 40 minutes later. |
| Twin-engine planes like hte A330 can fly with one engine, with pilots trained to safely take off and land in the event of failure. | |
| There are also in-built safeguards to stop fires spreading, with fire extinguishers inside engines that can be activated from the cockpit and fire-proof casings. | |
| Earlier this month, an Emirates plane was consumed by flames after landing at Dubai International Airport. |