Travellers Flee Jet Blaze ; NATIONAL NEWS
August 21, 2007
A CHINA Airlines jet exploded into flames at an airport in Japan after arriving from Taiwan today, but all 165 people aboard escaped alive, officials said.
All 157 passengers – including two small children – fled the Boeing 737 on inflated emergency slides before the plane burst into a fireball.
China Airlines spokesman Sun Hung-wen told reporters in Taipei the aircraft skidded on the tarmac on its way from the runway to the gate after landing at the Okinawa airport, starting a fire that prompted the emergency exit.
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