{"id":2423,"date":"2018-06-12T08:45:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T13:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2018-06-12T08:47:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T13:47:13","slug":"2423-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2423","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa A340 Damaged By Fire In Frankfurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">FRANKFURT (Reuters) &#8211; A Lufthansa Airbus A340-300 was heavily damaged and 10 people were sent to a clinic to check for potential respiratory issues after a towing truck caught fire at Frankfurt airport, the German airline said on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The 10 people include ground crew and fire brigade staff involved in putting out the blaze.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The fire occurred while the truck was repositioning the aircraft, which had no passengers or crew on board at the time, Lufthansa said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cThe aircraft is heavily damaged,\u201d Lufthansa said, adding that it was due to be used on flight LH426 to Philadelphia on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Reporting by Frank Simon; writing by Edward Taylor; editing by Jason Neely<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Home video of the incident has been posted on YouTube. Click on the link below to view!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AiyT2btmqGk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A340 catches fire while being towed<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2424\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/a340_fire-300x115.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"759\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/a340_fire-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/a340_fire-768x295.png 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/a340_fire.png 824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKFURT (Reuters) &#8211; A Lufthansa Airbus A340-300 was heavily damaged and 10 people were sent to a clinic to check for potential respiratory issues after a towing truck caught fire at Frankfurt airport, the German airline said on Monday. The 10 people include ground crew and fire brigade staff involved in putting out the blaze. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,797,89,868,1103],"tags":[51,47,336,572,571,137,412,1169],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-news","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-a340","tag-airbus","tag-fire","tag-frankfurt","tag-germany","tag-lufthansa","tag-news","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}