More than 90 passengers and crew were evacuated from a Russian plane Sunday after one of its engines caught fire while landing at an airport in southern Turkey, Agence France-Presse reported, citing the transportation ministry.
The incident involved a Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SU95) operated by Russia’s Azimuth Airlines.
They plane had just landed at Antalya airport on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast when a fire broke out in one of its engines, a ministry statement said.
“A SU95 type and RA89085-registered aircraft of Azimuth Airlines travelling from Sochi airport in Russia to Antalya airport had an engine fire during landing,” it said.
“Eighty-nine passengers and six crew members on board were safely evacuated at 9:43 p.m. (1843 GMT) and there were no injuries.”
All further scheduled landings at the airport would be cancelled until 3:00 a.m., it added, saying other planes waiting to depart would use the airport’s military runway for takeoff.
An airport official told the state-run Anadolu news agency that the fire had affected its left engine but had been quickly extinguished.