Nearly 200 passengers were forced to evacuate a Buzz Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane at Stockholm-Arlanda airport early Sunday after the cabin filled with smoke when the pilots started the engines while preparing for takeoff.
Buzz is a Poland-based partner of Irish airline Ryanair, which operated the evacuated flight preparing to depart for Krakow when the emergency began.
A video montage of the incident. published in X shows the chaotic scene that unfolds as passengers rush off the plane via inflatable emergency slides deployed at the plane’s doors.
Several emergency vehicles surrounded the plane on the snowy runway as first responders and airport employees helped passengers evacuate, but no injuries were reported in the incident.
Passengers escaped the smoke-filled cabin through emergency inflatable sides at Stockholm-Arlanda airport on Sunday. aviationbrk/X
In another segment of the video, the cabin appears to be filled with smoke as its 189 panicked passengers gather their belongings and queue to flee the plane.
As the cabin slowly filled with smoke, passengers reportedly had to loudly urge flight crew members to open the cabin doors and allow them to exit.
According to AirLive, one passenger described the incident as “highly traumatic.”
In a statement, a Ryanair spokesperson said Buzz engineers were inspecting the plane and a replacement plane had been sent to Arlanda to take passengers to their original destination.
“This morning (December 10) a Buzz aircraft in Arlanda reported smoke in the cabin. As a precautionary measure, passengers were evacuated and returned to the terminal,” the statement reads in part.
“We sincerely apologize to passengers affected by this delay which we are doing everything we can to minimize,” the spokesperson said.
“Refreshment vouchers have been given to passengers in Arlanda.”
Passengers reportedly had to raise their voices to the cabin crew before the cabin doors were opened to let them out. aviationbrk/X
Ryanair has courted controversy in the past and has occasionally made headlines for unusual incidents on board its planes.
In July, passengers on a Ryanair flight to Italy were stranded on the tarmac without air conditioning in more than 100-degree heat when their flight was delayed more than 10 hours, causing some to faint.
Then in September, Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary was pelted with cakes by environmental protesters in Brussels.
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Source: vtt.edu.vn