Flames, smoke inside plane lead to ‘horrific’ flight out of Logan
A professor and his wife were flying from Boston to Miami on Sunday night with their 5-year-old son when fire shot from the engine on the left wing and the plane’s cabin filled with smoke, reports The Boston Globe.
“I said goodbye to my wife, and was holding my son. We really thought we were going to die,” E. Mauricio Castellanos, a professor at the University of Florida College of Dentistry, told the Globe.
The plane left Logan Airport at 5:30 p.m., and passengers heard two loud bangs shortly afterward. The plane, an Airbus A321, made an emergency landing at Kennedy International Airport in New York an hour later. Passengers were told to get into the “brace position” as the plane landed.
“I couldn’t help thinking we were probably not going to make it, especially with the heavy smoke,” Diego Romero, 37, who was traveling with his pregnant wife, aunt, and 18-month-old daughter, told the Globe. “It was a horrific experience.”
American Airlines officials said there was a mechanical problem on the flight. Passengers told the Globe a pilot announced that oil had leaked onto the engine due to a clogged filter.
Read the full story in the Globe.
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