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Flames erupted from the engine of a Latam Airlines passenger jet preparing for take-off in Lima, Peru, on Tuesday, prompting the evacuation of all on board. No injuries were reported, and emergency crews responded to the situation.
The airline reported that emergency crews responded promptly, and all passengers were successfully evacuated without injury. The precise cause of the engine fire remains under investigation as the airline continues to assist affected passengers with rebooking.
Latam Airlines confirmed that all passengers were safely evacuated following an “unexpected technical event” with the Airbus A320’s engine, emphasising that safety remained their top priority. The airline is currently providing assistance to affected passengers, including rebooking on the next available flights.
What remains unclear — The exact cause of the fire in the aircraft’s engine has not been revealed.
Flames erupt from passenger jet engine during pre-takeoff in Peru
Flames gushed out of the engine of a passenger jet as it was preparing to take off in Peru.
Passengers on board the Latam Airlines flight from Lima to Piura were evacuated after the incident today, which saw the engine turn into a flamethrower.
Footage shows orange flames and thick smoke shooting out of the left engine of the Airbus A320 aircraft.
One passenger filmed the large flames billowing from the engine through the plane window, with smoke flaring against the cabin window.
Large flames shot out of the left engine (Picture: X/@aero_in)
No injuries were reported and passengers were safely evacuated while the emergency crews responded.
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The airline said the plane experienced an ‘unexpected technical event’ before departure, Air Data News reports.
It said all passengers disembarked as a precaution with ‘their safety remaining the top priority.’
Thick black smoke billowed into the air from the engine fire (Picture: X/@aero_in)
The cause of the fire has not been revealed.
The airline said affected passengers were given assistance, including booking them on the next available flights.
Elsewhere, an Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Austria declared a mid-air emergency after a suspected bomb threat.
The flight OS82 was over Romania when the incident was declared, forcing it to divert to Sofia, Bulgaria.
The incident comes weeks after a Flydubai pilot attempted to hijack a plane after attacking his co-pilot last month.
Captain Smit Machchhar was hailed a hero after foiling the attack despite being seriously injured in the hit.
Machchhar managed to reach for the doorknob and allow passengers to rush into the cockpit to subdue co-pilot Hammam al-Hammami, who allegedly attempted to hijack and crash the jet.
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October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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