City issues follow-up to recent incident at Williams Lake Airport
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(Press release issued by the City of Williams Lake)
On Sunday December 18, the city fire department responded to a call at the Williams Lake Regional Airport.
At approximately 6:45pm, an aircraft on a scheduled flight to Vancouver was starting one of the engines when it experienced an interruption in the start sequence. As a result, there was a small amount of raw fuel that ignited as it exited the outlet/exhaust portion of the engine. As a precaution the aircraft fire suppression system was activated to eliminate any further risk of fire. The passengers disembarked the aircraft and waited in the terminal building.
(Photo: The aircraft on the tacmac on Sunday night as Williams Lake Fire Department arrives on scene. Photo by Joe Cousins.)
The Williams Lake Fire department attended to ensure that there was no further risk to the aircraft.
The air carrier maintenance personnel needed to recharge the suppression system before the aircraft could return to service, and as such the flight was delayed until the following morning.
Read our original article from Sunday evening here: Passengers grounded in Williams Lake after plane shoots flame
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