A Malaysia Airlines plane carrying more than 300 passengers made an emergency landing at Melbourne airport on Friday after a reported engine fire.
Flight MH148 departed Melbourne Airport at 2:16 pm (0416 GMT) to head towards the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur but had to perform an emergency landing. All passengers were safe.
“After departing from Melbourne, the aircraft’s systems indicated there was an engine fire, so it returned and landed,” a spokesman for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau was quoted as saying by the ABC news.
However, an inspection of the aircraft after it landed found no evidence of a fire on board, …read more
Source: Daily News & Analysis