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15 Hurt as JetBlue Flight Catches Fire

Tires pop, flames erupt in rough Sacramento landing

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 27, 2010 1:22 AM CDT

(Newser) – Fifteen passengers were injured yesterday when a JetBlue flight caught on fire during a hard landing in Sacramento. "Get out, get out, get out!" flight attendants yelled as they deployed escape chutes, recounted a passenger. "I looked back under the plane, and it was on fire, and all four tires were out," he said. Pilots reported braking trouble on the Airbus A320, said JetBlue airline officials. The NTSB is investigating. Injuries among the 87 passengers appeared to be minor but five people were taken to the hospital, reports CBS News.

Relieved passengers hug after escaping with their lives down an emergency chute when their JetBlue flight popped its tires and erupted in flames during a hard landing in Sacramento yesterday.
Relieved passengers hug after escaping with their lives down an emergency chute when their JetBlue flight popped its tires and erupted in flames during a hard landing in Sacramento yesterday.   (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
Inflated emergency chutes jut from a JetBlue airplane that popped its tires and ignited during a hard landing yesterday in Sacramento.
Inflated emergency chutes jut from a JetBlue airplane that popped its tires and ignited during a hard landing yesterday in Sacramento.   (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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JoeQ
Aug 27, 2010 2:22 PM CDT
How much you want to bet that most of those injuries were broken bones? Those escape chutes are quite dangerous.
inky
Aug 27, 2010 1:34 AM CDT
So glad I didn't buy one of those passes!
Shawn_The_Bohn
Aug 27, 2010 1:31 AM CDT
We spend billions to fight "terror" but can't pay a decent pilot a good wage. We cop a feel on every passenger who enters a flight and treat every passenger like a criminal, but airline execs don't get held responsible when a plane malfunctions because they don't pay to keep the planes in good flying condition. The individual is oppressed in every action in our society and punished severely for trite and meaningless violations, like speeding, the greatest cash cow for local government ever conceived. Meanwhile the real problems, the real criminals, the real greed mongers, sit around making decisions that cost peoples lives, here, and abroad and just write off the "punishment" to the corporate bottom line.
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