British Airways flight evacuated in Spain after smoke fills cabin
- One passenger on the flight from London tweeted videos that appeared to show the smoke-filled cabin and claimed that a fire had broken out
Nearly 200 people had to be evacuated from a British Airways flight after smoke poured into the cabin minutes before it was about to land in Valencia.
Three people were taken to hospital after the incident on Monday, and each was later discharged.
One passenger on the flight from London’s Heathrow airport tweeted videos that appeared to show the smoke-filled cabin and claimed that a fire had broken out. The passenger, a Spanish sports journalist called Dani Merono Bori, said he and others had been forced to leave the plane using the emergency slides.
“Panic! Fear! Have never been through anything like that before,” he said. “What a miracle. The plane we were on from London to Valencia caught fire. We’ve just landed.”
After he got off the plane, Merono wrote: “Everyone’s OK but there were people who had a really rough time. It was a big shock when smoke started to appear when we were flying. Luckily we were close and everything turned out OK. We took a deep breath when we landed.”