Created Tuesday, Jun 10th 2025 17:32Z, last updated Monday, Jun 23rd 2025 11:15Z
A LATAM Brasil Airbus A320-200, registration PR-MAG performing flight
LA-1325 from Santiago (Chile) to Asuncion (Paraguay), was lining up Santiago's runway 17R for departure when the left hand engine caught fire. Emergency services responded and put the fire out.
Chile's DGCA reported flight
LA-1325 was cancelled due to a technical incident during start of the takeoff process. After all safety protocols had been applied the aircraft returned to the apron, where the passengers disembarked safely.
The flight was cancelled.
The aircraft is still on the ground in Santiago about 23 hours after lining up runway 17R.
On Jun 23rd 2025 Chile's DGCA reported: "Before the takeoff procedure and while the aircraft was at threshold 17L, the crew was warned in the cockpit of a fire in the left engine, which they shut down. Subsequently, and after being warned by another aircraft that smoke was still coming from the left engine, the SSLIA intervened and extinguished the fire, after which the aircraft proceeded (under its own power) to the terminal, and the passengers disembarked without any problems.", rated the occurrence a serious incident and opened an investigation.
Emergency services dousing the engine fire:
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