Turkish Airlines Plane Tyre Fire In Nepal

A Turkish Airlines aircraft’s tyres caught fire while landing at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on early Monday morning. Police confirmed that all passengers and crew members were safely evacuated.

Airlines Flight Tyre Catches Fire During Landing In Kathmandu

The flight en route from Istanbul to Kathmandu caught fire on the right tyres while landing, triggering the evacuation and rescue of all the passengers.”The aircraft with call sign TK726 was en route to Kathmandu from Istanbul, and the tyre had caught fire while landing.Airport security official SP Rajkumar Silawal told ANI that firefighters contained the blaze using fire engines and safely evacuated all passengers.

As per the official, there were a total of 278 passengers and 11 crew members on the flight.The flight also carried several United Nations officials. Videos circulating on social media showed flames and thick grey smoke rising from the aircraft’s right landing gear as crew members evacuated passengers through emergency exits.

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Turkish Airlines Fire Incident Recalls 2015 Nepal Mishap

Neither the airport nor Turkish Airlines has issued an official statement on the incident yet, and authorities are still investigating the cause. The airline faced a similar incident at Tribhuvan International Airport in 2015, when one of its aircraft skidded off the runway and veered onto the grassy shoulder during landing. This had forced the airport to remain shut for four days.

Initial reports at the time suggested that a loss of situation awareness of the flight captain during the final approach resulted in the Airbus A330 missing the runway’s centre line.The flight with the same call-sign TK726 from Istanbul was carrying 224 people when it ploughed into the grassland on the left side of the runway at Kathmandu’s fog-covered airport. Crew members evacuated all passengers through the emergency doors, and no one suffered injuries in the incident.

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