A flight bound for Abu Dhabi with about 280 passengers aborted its journey on Tuesday following a "fire" on its left wing, airport officials here said. The Etihad flight was preparing for take-off when the pilots noticed the fire. Subsequently, all the passengers were safely disembarked and there were no injuries to anyone, officials added.
The fire was immediately put out by Fire Service personnel and the flight was cancelled.
It was the pilots who first noticed the fire and alerted about the same then the engineering team that declared ‘Aircraft on Ground’ (AOG).
AOG is a ‘critical and high-urgency aviation term’, which is used to indicate that an aircraft is unairworthy due to ‘technical, maintenance, or engineering failures’, resulting in it being unfit for flying. The AOG here was reportedly declared due to hydraulic leakage in the craft.
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