{"id":313043,"date":"2023-04-24T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/24\/plane-carrying-arsenal-womens-team-bursts-into-flames-on-runway-before-take-off\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T17:36:00","slug":"plane-carrying-arsenal-womens-team-bursts-into-flames-on-runway-before-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/24\/plane-carrying-arsenal-womens-team-bursts-into-flames-on-runway-before-take-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane Carrying Arsenal Women&#8217;s Team Bursts Into Flames On Runway Before Take-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Plane Carrying Arsenal Women's Team Bursts Into Flames On Runway Before Take-Off\" alt=\"Plane Carrying Arsenal Women's Team Bursts Into Flames On Runway Before Take-Off\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-04\/pagi6d5o_plane-carrying-arsenal-womens-team_625x300_24_April_23.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">The team was forced to stay in a hotel in Germany for an extra night (Representational pic)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A plane that was to carry the Arsenal women&#8217;s team back to London\u00a0following their Champions League draw with Wolfsburg burst into flames on the runway. According to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2023\/04\/24\/arsenal-womens-plane-bursts-into-flames-as-they-try-to-take-off-18665023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metro<\/a><\/em>, the\u00a0incident occurred on Sunday evening at Germany&#8217;s\u00a0Braunschweig Wolfsburg Airport\u00a0shortly before a Boeing 737 was due to take off.<\/p>\n<p>An airport spokesman told the German newspaper<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/regional\/hannover\/hannover-aktuell\/schock-nach-champions-league-feuer-am-flugzeug-der-arsenal-frauen-83669764.bild.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Bild<\/a>\u00a0that a bird strike had caused the engine fire. Witnesses said that they heard a loud bang, following which the\u00a0plane was stopped. Flames were spotted coming out of the plane, forcing the pilots to abandon take-off.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, all passengers were\u00a0evacuated and no one was hurt in the incident. However, the team was\u00a0forced to stay in a hotel in Germany for an extra night owing to the mishap.<\/p>\n<p>Later,\u00a0Arsenal released a statement confirming the team returned home safely on Monday on a replacement plane.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<p>The statement read, &#8221;Our aircraft developed a technical issue prior to take-off in Germany on Sunday evening. \u00a0We remained in Wolfsburg overnight on Sunday before flying back to England on Monday afternoon. We would like to thank the staff onboard the aircraft and on the ground at the airport for their assistance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wolfsburg is due to face Arsenal again in their Champions League semi-final on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>A similar incident was reported on Sunday when an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/video-american-airlines-plane-makes-emergency-landing-after-engine-catches-fire-3973207\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Airlines plane was forced to return<\/a> to Ohio airport after a bird strike sparked an engine fire.\u00a0A video going viral on social media showed\u00a0the plane returning to John Glenn International Airport in Columbus as flames and smoke are seen coming from the right engine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/plane-carrying-arsenal-womens-team-bursts-into-flames-on-runway-before-take-off-3976069\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The team was forced to stay in a hotel in Germany for an extra night (Representational pic) A plane that was to carry the Arsenal women&#8217;s team back to London\u00a0following their Champions League draw with Wolfsburg burst into flames on the runway. According to Metro, the\u00a0incident occurred on Sunday evening at Germany&#8217;s\u00a0Braunschweig Wolfsburg Airport\u00a0shortly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":313044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[294,380787,114338,380790,1678,278644,882,24993,380789,380788,92725,380791,65867],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}