Passenger of the plane that caught fire in Antalya told about the long landing of the ship

An airplane of the Russian airline Azimut that caught fire while landing at Antalya airport could not land for a long time. About this on November 25 "Izvestia" told the passenger of the aircraft Yulia Kostina.

"It all started with the fact that we couldn't land for a long time. We were told by the pilot that we should land in about 20 minutes, and we began to decline, but the decline lasted about 40, even 50 minutes. I thought for a long time why we were circling, some strange sensations, they could not land the plane in any way," she said.

Julia noted that after a sharp blow at landing, the plane immediately slowed down, stopped - and "silence". Passengers did not understand what was happening, there was no light in the airplane. The stewardess came out to the passengers and told everyone to stay in their seats. However, a man from the end of the plane shouted that he saw smoke and fire in the porthole.

"Everyone started getting up and 'let's get out, open the emergency exit'." The stewardess is confused, she probably doesn't know how to act in such a situation. She says, "help." A man came up to her and helped her open the emergency ladder," the Izvestia interlocutor said.

The victim specified that the fire flared up quickly, there were many fire engines at the scene.

"Eyewitnesses say that they saw from the window how the fuel was leaking, that is, the airplane could explode at any second. Here we are on our second birthday today," she stated.

Thefire of the Azimut airlineplane during landing at Antalya airport occurred on November 24. Portal AirportHaber specified that the airport runway was temporarily closed because of the incident. According to preliminary information, there are no casualties as a result of the incident, the cause of the fire is being investigated.

Later, the deputy airport manager Suat Seyitoglu specified that the fire in the plane of the Russian airline Azimut was extinguished.

Natalia, a passenger of the ignited airplane, said that fuel began to leak out after a sharp impact on landing, and then the engine caught fire. According to her, the crew of the airplane tried to calm down the passengers, who helped each other and got out of the inflamed aircraft by going down the inflatable ramp. In turn, another passenger reported a sharp impact on landing, which caused a power outage. According to her, there was panic and crush inside the airplane during evacuation. There was a lot of smoke and a very strong smell of burning plastic. Children were supposed to be let out first, but this did not happen.