Category: News Author : Duncan Riley Posted: June 10, 2009
Tags : airbus, jetstar, jetstar a300, jetstar accident, jetstar fire
Jetstar A330 catches fire, makes emergency landing in Guam

An Airbus A330-200 aircraft operated by Jetstar, the fully owned budget subsidiary of Australian airline Qantas, has made an emergency landing in Guam after the aircraft caught fire.
JQ20 was on route to the Gold Coast (Australia) from Osaka, Japan when the pilots spotted flames in the right hand side cockpit window. The crew extinguished the flames with an onboard fire extinguisher, and issued a may-day call.
The plane, carrying 202 people including the crew, landed safely at Guam International Airport at 2:20am local time Thursday morning.
At a press conference in Christchurch, New Zealand, Jetstar’s CEO said that the aircraft was two years old, and had been serviced by Qantas Engineering in Australia. The last point is notable locally given previous suggestions that Qantas aircraft with problems in the past had received sub-standard servicing in Asia. He also noted that aircraft had automatically notified the airline that there had been a failure in the on-board heating systems immediately prior to the emergency being declared.
The incident follows the loss of an Air France A330 over the Atlantic Ocean June 1.




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Jun 10, 2009
Thank goodness it landed safely without further incident. But how a modern aircraft of any type and especially one that is only two years old can develop a fire – one that produces flames rather than simply smoke – has to be very worrying. I suppose though that this might well have a simple cause, perhaps one related to servicing or instrument replacement where damage has been caused. It is to be hoped so…