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Uploaded by on May 13, 2009

Passengers have made an emergency exit after their plane caught fire as it landed.

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  • @Dexterluckful Wow, someone's a little hateful towards Southwest.

    It was an unaccounted error on the pilot's part, not necessarily any fault on the airline.

    Actually, not one SINGLE person has died while flying in a Southwest plane, so your complaint is inaccurate. Plus, as a frequent flyer, I've found Southwest to be one of my favorite airlines.

    Maybe next time you're flying American Airlines or Frontier, your plane will catch on fire, as this one did, and several others have.

  • Any flight on Southworst where no one dies is a miracle.

  • I'm thinking to much brake pressure and friction.

  • @dellave11 yup, that mostly can be the cause.... they try to land smoothly and float the whole runway,,, then when they notice they are running of.. they step on them..

  • @afgrocks123 can be, the break was applied to hard and the tire blowed

  • @dellave11 the landing was okay,, over-breaking is the cause..

  • it seems the pilot landed really hard and the landing gear doesn't support the landing and have blowed

  • Well done to the crew, passangers were out straight away.

  • @dalifesaver1 6,875 gal. to be exact ; )

    although im no firefighter i do know that for faa regs they have to purposefully heat up the breaks and tires of the aircraft and let them burn as fire fighters watch to see if the aircraft can handle it so i would of thought that it wouldn't be able to catch the wing on fire but then again those 737s almost skim the floor there tires are so close to the wings so maybe...

  • i think it was between a hot landing and using to much break to soon.. definite pilot error....remeber that 150,000 pounds trying to stop to fast...

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