The Plane Caught Fire But Pilots Did Something to Save 350 People

Your odds of being in some air catastrophe are 1 in 11 million! But these things do happen, like the story of Orenair Flight 554. The Russian airliner was departing from Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic and heading to Moscow. This was a routine 12-hour direct flight, full of happy, tanned Russian tourists who, I imagine, had just had the time of their lives on a long-awaited sunny beach vacation in escape of the cold February weather back home.
There were 351 passengers on board, along with 20 crewmembers. Everything was going smoothly, people were either chatting, listening to music, or closing their eyes to get some rest. After all, they had a long flight ahead of them, might as well spend most of those 12 hours snoozing! Well, turns out, the flight wasn’t quite as long as it should’ve been…
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TIMESTAMPS:
What's that bang? 1:55
Where there’s smoke, there’s a fire 3:03
The biggest problem in the situation 4:02
Why the emergency landing was so risky 4:48
True miracle! 7:29
What caused the fire 8:42
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SUMMARY:
- Just 15 minutes after their successful take-off, the pilots noticed that the plane stopped climbing at 12,000 feet (3,700 m). It just wouldn’t go any higher to the 31,000 feet (9,500 m) of altitude that it needed.
- Passengers had heard the bang and felt the plane start to fall, but they didn’t really know what was going on.
- Not even a minute had gone by when thick black smoke started to puff out of the left wing. That’s when it became clear: where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and that left engine was in flames!
- In the flight deck, the engine failure alarm was already going off, and the cabin was now starting to fill up with smoke.
- The biggest problem in this situation (other than, ya know, the plane being on fire) was that, since they’d only been in the air for 20 minutes or so, the Boeing-777 was still full of fuel – and lots of it!
- The heavier a plane is, the faster it’s going when it touches the ground since all that mass has more momentum.
- The pilots had to act quickly, so that meant landing with their fuel tanks full. The crew was mentally prepared for the worse, but they wouldn’t let all those passengers recognize it.
- While landing, the engine fire had stopped for a moment. But once the plane made a full stop, it started up again, this time even stronger.
- But what happened next was a true miracle. The plane managed to come to a full and smooth stop without running out of runway.
- Aircraft rescuers, as well as firefighters, were already at the scene trying to put out the fires. Miraculously, all 351 passengers got off the plane safely without any injuries. The crew then followed.
- After the landing, aircraft engineers carried out all the necessary inspections and found out that the fire was caused by an engine failure on the 11-year-old plane.
- Not long after the heroic landing, Captain Konstantin Parikozha and co-pilot Igor Kravtsov were awarded The Order of Courage for handling the situation so skillfully and saving everyone’s lives.
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