Fuel leak cited in airliner fire
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From Times Wire Reports
A fuel leak may have caused the fire that destroyed a Taiwanese jet in Japan seconds after its passengers fled, aviation officials said.
Japanese authorities said they were focusing on evidence that the plane’s right engine leaked fuel as it pulled into a parking spot after arriving from Taiwan.
The 157 passengers and eight crew slid down chutes and jumped from windows before flames engulfed the China Airlines Boeing 737-800 at Okinawa’s Naha Airport on Monday. No one was hurt.
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