One of tyres of Southwest Airlines Flight 519 from New Orleans caught fire after the jet touched down and was sliding on the tarmac at Houston Hobby Airport on May 12 night. All five crew members and 47 passengers aboard were uninjured after they escaped by sliding down emergency evacuation chutes of the jet as firefighters tried to extinguish the flames. The accident was filmed on a tape now wildly circulated on the internet. You can watch the footage from UK’s Telegraph below. Good news, hours before this post was entered, the burned tire was changed and the airplane was put back into service.
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