{"id":59140,"date":"2026-05-11T02:33:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/turkish-airlines-plane-evacuated-after-smoke-seen-from-landing-gear-in-nepal\/11\/05\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T02:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:33:49","slug":"turkish-airlines-plane-evacuated-after-smoke-seen-from-landing-gear-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/turkish-airlines-plane-evacuated-after-smoke-seen-from-landing-gear-in-nepal\/11\/05\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Airlines plane evacuated after smoke seen from landing gear in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By Gopal Sharma<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">KATHMANDU, May 11 (Reuters) &#8211; A Turkish Airlines plane was evacuated after \u200csmoke was observed from its landing \u200cgear while it was taxiing after landing in \u200bNepal&#8217;s capital of Kathmandu, the airline said, forcing the closure of the airport for an hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) \u200chad earlier said \u2060a fire broke out in the right rear tyre of the \u2060Airbus A330, which was doused before the plane was towed to the taxiway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All 277 \u200bpassengers and \u200b11 crew on \u200bboard were evacuated \u200cusing the emergency exits, and nobody was injured, the aviation regulator and airline said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Technical inspections of the aircraft have been initiated by our teams. Initial assessments indicate that \u200cthe smoke was caused \u200bby a technical malfunction \u200bin a hydraulic \u200bpipe,&#8221; Yahya Ustun, the airline&#8217;s \u200csenior vice president, communications, \u200bsaid on \u200bsocial media platform X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An additional flight has been planned for the return of \u200bthe passengers, \u200che added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Gopal Sharma; Writing \u200bby Sakshi Dayal; Editing by Clarence \u200bFernandez and Jamie Freed)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/turkish-airlines-plane-evacuated-due-035209602.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, May 11 (Reuters) &ndash; A Turkish Airlines plane was evacuated after &zwnj;smoke was observed from its landing &zwnj;gear<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/turkish-airlines-plane-evacuated-after-smoke-seen-from-landing-gear-in-nepal\/11\/05\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/reuters_ready_asia_test_903\/bb3bc6c626270fb18a1af4d3e28fe5b0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}