Passengers Delayed For 10 Hours After Firefighters Cover The WRONG Plane With Foam

Emergency services mistakenly covered the wrong plane with foam while it was on the ground at Fuzhou city airport in China

Air passengers were delayed for ten hours after firefighters doused the wrong plane with foam.

Emergency services mistakenly covered the wrong plane with foam while it was on the ground at Fuzhou city airport in China.

Unfortunate passengers had to wait ten hours while airport staff cleaned off the foam, which is used to put out fires.

Firefighters had responded to reports of sparks flying from the engine of a plane that was taxiing at the airport.

However, they mistakenly doused the wrong plane with foam, which led to 30 flights being delayed.

The report of an engine problem had come from an Air China Boeing 737-800 plane bound for Beijing, but firefighters mistakenly doused a Fuzhou Airlines plane of the same make which had exhaust fumes billowing from its tail.

Read : Small mistake delayed 30 flights and left one plane grounded for 10 hours

The emergency services eventually sprayed the right plane after the airport’s control tower told them of their mistake.

But the mistakenly sprayed plane did not take off for another ten hours while its engines were checked.

No one was injured in the incident.

News Source : Yahoo News

Small mistake delayed 30 flights and left one plane grounded for 10 hours

WHEN crew members of a passenger plane reported sparks coming from an engine while taxiing at an airport in southern China, eight fire trucks responded within minutes.

But they covered the wrong plane with white foam.

The mistake at the Fuzhou city airport on Thursday was quickly amended and the firefighters turned their attention to the correct plane, but the other one — with passengers aboard — was delayed 10 hours and 30 flights were delayed in total, the airport said in a statement.

The Air China flight had reported the problems in a right-side engine of a Boeing 737-800 for a flight headed to Beijing.

By the time firefighters arrived four minutes later, engines were switched off.

However, a Fuzhou Airlines plane of the same make had exhaust fumes coming from its tail.

The firefighters sprayed the Fuzhou Airlines plane with foam until the airport’s control centre alerted them to the mistake, and then they sprayed the right plane, the airport said.

Fuzhou Airlines said its plane was covered with white foam and had to be towed away to check its engines. It took off about 10 hours later.

The airport apologised for the inconvenience.

News Source : news.com.au