Around 300 passengers had been anticipated to journey within the plane.
Smoke began billowing out of the tail of a Dubai-bound Emirates flight at Chennai airport final night time. A plume of white smoke was popping out from the engine compartment of a Boeing 777 plane whereas it was stationed on the tarmac. No passengers had been aboard the airplane when the incident passed off.
A video shot on the tarmac exhibits smoke popping out of the tail because of overfilling earlier than take-off. The space was cleared by the bottom employees, however the smoke was blowing towards a airplane parked behind the Dubai-bound flight.
“Ground employees alerted pilots, who shut down engines to forestall escalation. And fireplace engines rushed to the location to forestall any untoward state of affairs. The state of affairs was introduced beneath management. In between, all passengers had been deplaned for a security inspection,” A Chennai airport official.
Around 300 passengers had been anticipated to journey within the plane however the incident occurred earlier than boarding passed off. Fire engines had been current on the spot to regulate the hearth. The flight was scheduled to take off at 10 pm however the incident delayed it by over two hours and the plane took off at 12:30 am.
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), India’s aviation watchdog, has ordered an enquiry. Meanwhile, Emirates apologized for the inconvenience induced to passengers and mentioned, “Following an engineering inspection, the plane was cleared to proceed to Dubai. Emirates apologizes for the inconvenience induced. The security of our passengers and crew is of the utmost significance.”