Indian plane has narrow escape

Kathmandu: Dozens of lives were saved from an impending accident when the right landing gear of an Indian Airlines Airbus 320 caught fire but landed safely at the Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu Wednesday afternoon.
The Airbus, which was carrying some five dozen passengers, was on a routine Kolkata-Kathmandu flight, and had landed at the TIA at 15:08 hours.
The cause of the fire is still not clear, the airport officials said.
After the landing gear caught fire, the fire trucks based at the airport were immediately pushed into action. Other parts of the Airbus were not damaged after the fire was put out quickly.
29/08/07 Kantipur Online, Nepal

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