PASSENGERS on board a flight from Glasgow escaped serious injury after their plan caught fire this evening.
A full emergency was declared at Belfast International Airport after the Flybe flight which had been travelling from Glasgow to George Best Belfast City Airport.
The ambulance service said all 76 passengers and four crew were taken off the plane safely. One person was taken to hospital as a precaution.
Flybe confirmed the flight was diverted due to a small engine fire “which was extinguished before landing”.
Quintin Oliver, who was on the BE130 flight, said one of emergency exits did not have steps so passengers had to jump about six feet onto the runway.
Another passenger Billy Pollock said he looked out a window and saw an engine on fire.
“There was some concern, and a lot of people were quite upset but not hysterical,” he said.
“The pilot did a super job, great landing. There was an emergency evacuation.”
Flybe said: “The emergency services attended as a routine and precautionary measure.
“Passengers disembarked the aircraft safely and will be transferred onto Belfast City Airport by road transport.
“At no time was the safety and wellbeing of passengers compromised.”
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