‘God, Save Our Flight’: Passengers Pray As Flight With Engine Fire Makes Emergency Landing

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by Mark Joyella | 8:58 am, May 16th, 2011

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Passengers aboard a Cathay Pacific jet with a burning engine prayed together as the crew made an emergency landing early Monday morning. All 136 passengers and the flight’s crew survived the ordeal, but there were terrifying moments in the air, as NBC’s Mike Taibbi reported on TODAY Monday. “The flight took off at 1:12 a.m . bound for Jakarta, Indonesia but passengers heard the bangs, saw the lights go out and smelled smoke. Some passengers could see that one of the four engines was on fire. The crew of the airbus said they shut down the engine when they got a stall warning. With the plane shaking violently, the passengers were told they were headed back to Singapore. Many passengers started saying, ‘God save our flight, give us your protection,’ the prayers getting louder as they made it back to the airport.”

A Reuters photographer who was onboard the flight caught images of the terrified passengers as they put on life jackets in preparation for the emergency landing back in Singapore, and afterwards, as the shaken travelers emerged from the plane.

It’s not yet known what caused the engine on the aircraft to catch fire. Here’s the latest, from NBC News:

Cathay Pacific, Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, Mike Taibbi, Singapore, Today

Barack Must Go

Thank God for little miracles, or in this case big ones.
Rescuedog

I saw the Today show’s report this morning and this video is a new version. They recut it to cover up Taibbi’s multiple errors! In the live report aired on the east coast, he said at one point the plane was made by Boeing, which Meredith Vieira had to correct after a commercial break. Also, the said the type of plane involved, the Airbus A330, had four engines (it only has two). His comment in the above video about the Qantas jet that lost an engine last year was different in the live report. The live report mentioned a previous incident where an engine disintegrated in flight, but he didn’t mention the airline or the fact that the plane was an A380 with a different model engine, as he did in the new video. I think this was the point where he made the Airbus/Boeing error, but I’m not sure.
BatBoy

Rescuedog said:
I saw the Today show’s report this morning and this video is a new version. They recut it to cover up Taibbi’s multiple errors! In the live report aired on the east coast, he said at one point the plane was made by Boeing, which Meredith Vieira had to correct after a commercial break. Also, the said the type of plane involved, the Airbus A330, had four engines (it only has two). His comment in the above video about the Qantas jet that lost an engine last year was different in the live report. The live report mentioned a previous incident where an engine disintegrated in flight, but he didn’t mention the airline or the fact that the plane was an A380 with a different model engine, as he did in the new video. I think this was the point where he made the Airbus/Boeing error, but I’m not sure.

Facts…We don’t need no stinking Facts!

In Delivering the news today, the importantance seems to be to get a story out…any story.

This is one of the many reasons why news today is going in the tank.
Mas Liberty5

Why aren’t the comments closed here like in the Tommy Christopher article about Lemon coming out of the closet via tweeter? LOL….Mediaite and it’s double standard are something else.
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If this is the updated and correxcted version why are the 2 reporters still apparently confused about whether the airplanes was an A330 or an A380?
ProgLib

God should have done a pre-flight check instead of scaring these poor people half to death.