Kamangir (Archer)

“Don’t Panic if on a Plane an Engine Caught Fire”

Kamangir | July 17, 2007 | Category Iran

Flight 3431 with 250 passengers on board was forced to carry out emergency landing. While taking off from Isfahan airport, 1:45pm local time, one of the engines caught fire, but, fortunately, the plane landed safely. Subsequently, the passengers, who were connecting from Saudi Arabia, used another plane to go to Tehran. That, however, is not the whole story.

The public relations of Mahan, the semi-private company which operates the airline, called problems in engine as being second-degree and added “the passengers should have not paniced. A plane has too many engines and loosing one is not fatal. The pilot can manage the situation and land safely. Thus, the passengers must not panic”.

Our Perspective asks if there are first and second degree nuclear accidents too. He asks “Am I worth a wire in one of those centrifuges in my own country?” A comment for the post reads “I think, at the begining of the flight, rather than showing the emergency exits, they should tell everyone not to do anything if an engine caught fire. And to only get slightly worried if two engines caught fire. When the plane started falling down and there was no air to breeze, then that’s the time to prepare for death”.

To make the whole incident sillier, Alef, a website close to the administraiton, reports that the airport administration were working on the list of casualties.