Passengers await flight updates outside Peruvian airport following crash

Record ID: 1698337

  • Title: Passengers await flight updates outside Peruvian airport following crash
  • Date: 19th November 2022
  • Summary: CALLAO, PERU (NOVEMBER 18, 2022) (REUTERS) WORKERS OUTSIDE AIRPORT PASSENGERS EXITING AIRPORT GATES WORKERS CLOSING AIRPORT GATES PASSENGERS COMPLAINING BEHIND FENCE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) COLOMBIAN PASSENGER, SERGIO RESTREPO, SAYING: “We regret the accident as there were two dead people and it’s painful. But in any case, the airline I was about to fly with was Wingo an
  • Embargoed: 3rd December 2022 02:07
  • Keywords: Accident Airport Emergency landing Firefighter Latam Airlines Peru Plane
  • Location: CALLAO, PERU
  • City: CALLAO, PERU
  • Country: Peru
  • Topics: Air Accidents,Disaster/Accidents,South America / Central America
  • Reuters ID: LVA001065519112022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:A LATAM Airlines jet collided with a firetruck on the runway of Peru's Jorge Chavez International Airport as it was taking off on Friday (November 18), the carrier said, resulting in the death of two firefighters.
    No passengers or flight crew members were killed in the incident, the airline said.
    It remains unclear why the firetruck entered the runway while the plane was taking off and the prosecutors' office said it was investigating the incident as potential manslaughter.
    Lima Airport Partners, which operates Jorge Chavez in Lima, the nation's most important airport, said the airport will remain closed at least through 1 p.m. local time on Saturday (November 19), leaving dozens of passengers stranded.
    Silvio Celis said he was worried as his daughter was due to take a flight to France as her lessons started on Monday and he didn’t know what they were going to do.
    The flight was LA2213, covering the domestic Lima-Juliaca route, LATAM Airlines said.
    This is the second incident in less than a month involving LATAM Airlines, after one of its planes had its nose destroyed during a severe storm that forced it to make an emergency landing.
    (Production: Carlos Valdez, Anna Portella)
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