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Southwest Airlines 159 caught fire at Hobby Airport in Houston

by Amy Judd | May 12, 2009 at 05:08 pm

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Southwest Airlines flight 159 caught fire upon landing at Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas.

All passengers were evacuated from the plane, and watched from a safe distance while crews put out the fire. One of the plane's tires caught on fire and then it spread.

Those flames started under the aircraft, and got larger in the moments after the plane came to a stop. Minutes later, fire crews arrived to put out the fire, and the passengers jumped down an emergency slide evacuating the plane one at a time.

It is not known how severe the fire is at this time.

Hobby Airport in Houston has four runways and is the state's oldest commercial airport.

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Blue Crush

at 19:03 on May 12th, 2009

They believe it was a blow out. See video at CNN.

Paschen

at 19:07 on May 12th, 2009

They do make the news a little to often in the last 10 month.

jazzyzazzy

at 22:42 on May 12th, 2009

this is getting scary airlines are just so vulnerable now for either terrorist attacks or bad maintenance.

chanaka

at 03:53 on May 13th, 2009

Thanks for sharing this and looks like Flight industry is in termoil as there are lot of accidents in last few months onwards.

Foreigner (not verified)

at 04:08 on May 13th, 2009

Who's that idiot first sending down his suitcase?

Petey5959 (not verified)

at 08:26 on May 13th, 2009

I fly Southwest often-no less than monthly-I find the airline very safety concious and always better than I have ever seen, heard, or experiences from any other airline..........Looks like they were able to get everyone off safetly when it could have been alot worse. Too many are looking for the bad in everything instead of the good............accidents are going to happen because we are human but when you are trained appropriately as Southwest employees are then you know how to deal with problems which is the goal to start with.....

AlvarezGalloso

at 09:49 on May 13th, 2009

While congratulating you on this story, we should be thinking about those in the flight who suffered trauma from what has transpired even though they survived.