Video: Milan-bound plane catches fire after being forced to turn back

Hundreds of passengers aboard a Milan-bound red-eye flight got the scare of their lives Monday when the jet turned back due to engine problems and then burst into flames on the runway in Singapore. All 241 passengers and crew survived the harrowing ordeal aboard the Singapore Airlines Boeing 777, but not without heart-stopping drama in the air and on the tarmac at Changi Airport, where the ill-fated flight began and ended. Firefighters doused the flames even as passengers waited inside the cabin and the smell of jet fuel hung in the air, a witness said. More...

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