Engine shut down as smoke fills cabin of Jetstar flight
Posted 23 Sep 2016 11:25
pdated 23 Sep 2016 13:38
SYDNEY: A Jetstar pilot shut down an engine and diverted to Brisbane as smoked filled the cabin on a passenger flight from Sydney to Cairns in an incident passengers said was "terrifying".
The Airbus A320 was en route to the northern Queensland city on Thursday evening when the pilot took action to deal with what the carrier said was "a technical issue with one of its engines".
"The captain decided to shut down one of the engines as a precaution and divert the aircraft to Brisbane," a spokesman for the Australian budget airline said. "Engineers are looking into the cause.
"While it's rare for something like this to happen, our crew are trained to deal with these type of situations and they handled the situation very professionally."
Video taken on board the plane, shot by a passenger and broadcast by the ABC, showed smoke in the cabin.
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