extinguisher | George Hatcher's Air Flight Disaster https://airflightdisaster.com Aviation News, Headlines & Alerts Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:06:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 SriLankan Airlines Plane Makes Safe Landing After Lithium Battery Catches Fire Mid-Air https://airflightdisaster.com/srilankan-airlines-plane-makes-safe-landing-after-lithium-battery-catches-fire-mid-air/ Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:06:51 +0000 http://airflightdisaster.com/?p=38014 SriLankan Airlines flight UL-166 made an emergency landing in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on July 30th. The Airbus A330-200 plane flying from Kochi, India, declared an emergency after smoke was noticed emanating from a bag carrying a Lithium Ion battery and two mobile phones. The crew discharged fire extinguishers into the bag while the plane continued...

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]]> SriLankan Airlines flight UL-166 made an emergency landing in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on July 30th.

The Airbus A330-200 plane flying from Kochi, India, declared an emergency after smoke was noticed emanating from a bag carrying a Lithium Ion battery and two mobile phones.

The crew discharged fire extinguishers into the bag while the plane continued for a safe landing.

All two hundred and two people aboard remained unharmed.

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