8 Hurt after airline engine fire in Paris

Eight passengers were injured on Wednesday after an airbus caught fire at Orly Airport, Paris.

One of the engines caught fire just before takeoff, and the Vueling flight to Alicante was grounded.

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No information was available about the age of the plane or when the last maintenance check was carried out.An airport spokesman said fire crews reached the aircraft quickly and put out the blaze. All 165 passengers got out safely, but airport medical personnel treated the injured passenger for minor injuries, sustained when they were sliding down the evacuation slides.

“People were pushing, and I landed in a slide and I injured myself, but it is nothing,” Sylvie Rousseau, a passenger on the plane, told Reuters. “I think I pulled a ligament.”

Vueling said the affected passengers boarded another plane which left Paris Orly at 3 p.m. and landed in Alicante at 5 p.m.

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