Friday, October 18th, 2024
Rome (CNN) — More than 180 people were evacuated Thursday from a Ryanair Boeing passenger jet after it caught fire while taxiing to take off at Brindisi Airport in southern Italy.
The incident comes two days after a tire blowout on another of the airline’s Boeing planes during landing led to the temporary closure of Milan Bergamo Airport.
A spokesperson for the airport in Brindisi confirmed there had been a fire that halted air traffic for several hours.