An engine on a Vietnam Airlines jet caught fire after the plane arrived at Narita Airport on Wednesday morning, government officials said. None of the 277 passengers and crewmembers on board was injured as they had already disembarked by the time the fire started. The local office of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry is investigating the cause of the fire. At around 7:40 a.m., an air traffic controller at Narita Airport noticed smoke coming out of one of the two engines on a Vietnam Airlines Boeing 777-200 that was taxiing toward a gate after landing. The engine caught fire at around 8:30 a.m. after all the passengers had disembarked at the gate. Seventeen fire engines were mobilized to extinguish the blaze.
Ministry inspectors suspect that fuel had leaked and began to smoke after it became heated.

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Cathay Pacific jet damaged in flight lands safely in Vancouver.

A Cathay Pacific Airways Boeing 747 aircraft with 363 passengers suffered mid-air damage while descending for a landing at Vancouver on Tuesday, officials said.
There were no injuries but officials were trying to determine what happened to the plane at 20,000 feet while on a flight from New York to Hong Kong via the western Canadian city of Vancouver, said Jennifer Pearson, a Cathay Pacific spokeswoman. An external panel on the aircraft's fuselage was damaged in the incident, according to Pearson, but she could not confirm or deny local media reports that the panel had been separated from the plane.

An engine on a Vietnam Airlines jet caught fire after the plane arrived at Narita Airport on Wednesday morning, government officials said. None of the 277 passengers and crewmembers on board was injured as they had already disembarked by the time the fire started. The local office of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry is investigating the cause of the fire. At around 7:40 a.m., an air traffic controller at Narita Airport noticed smoke coming out of one of the two engines on a Vietnam Airlines Boeing 777-200 that was taxiing toward a gate after landing. The engine caught fire at around 8:30 a.m. after all the passengers had disembarked at the gate. Seventeen fire engines were mobilized to extinguish the blaze.
Ministry inspectors suspect that fuel had leaked and began to smoke after it became heated.

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Cathay Pacific jet damaged in flight lands safely in Vancouver.

A Cathay Pacific Airways Boeing 747 aircraft with 363 passengers suffered mid-air damage while descending for a landing at Vancouver on Tuesday, officials said.
There were no injuries but officials were trying to determine what happened to the plane at 20,000 feet while on a flight from New York to Hong Kong via the western Canadian city of Vancouver, said Jennifer Pearson, a Cathay Pacific spokeswoman. An external panel on the aircraft's fuselage was damaged in the incident, according to Pearson, but she could not confirm or deny local media reports that the panel had been separated from the plane.