Smoke fills Vueling aircraft after blast as pilot ‘flees over runway’

A Spanish low-cost airline pilot has been accused of fleeing a aircraft when it caught hearth.

The “blast” occurred on Saturday on a Vueling flight from Barcelona to Birmingham.

Smoke started to fill the cabins and passengers have been much more surprised to search out that the pilot had fled the aircraft as an alternative of searching for his or her security.

Andrew Benion, 50, stated he was strapped in when there was all of the sudden a “massive bang” and the odor of smoke from the rear of the aircraft.

“All of the lights went out and the emergency lights got here on – it was scary,” he advised The Solar.

“Subsequent the stewards begin to have a disaster, working up and down the aisles – first telling everybody to maintain their belts on, then telling everybody to take their belts off.

‘One bumped into the cockpit to inform the captain. Then, as quickly as a stewardess opened the entrance door, the captain instantly ran away. He was simply gone. He was the primary to get off the aircraft. He did an entire Costa Concordia.’

Mr Benion, from Telford, Shropshire, had been on a Mediterranean cruise along with his spouse Clare, 46, for his fiftieth birthday.

They have been pressured to journey with Vueling after British Airways canceled their return flight.

Mr Benion stated the stewardess began shouting for everybody to get out after the pilot fled, whereas a Spanish passenger subsequent to them stated: “The aircraft is on hearth”.

“We couldn’t imagine the captain simply left us like that – he ran to security and all of us sat there like lemmings,” he added.

The vacationers have been then escorted to a locked room on the airport and surrounded by police for an hour.

Mr Benion stated they have been ultimately placed on one other aircraft however needed to wait one other 90 minutes whereas it was refueled and a brand new pilot confirmed up.

Metro.co.uk has reached out to Vueling for remark.

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