The federal Transportation Safety Board has been deployed to investigate a plane fire in Calgary on Wednesday.
WestJet confirmed on Wednesday in a statement to Global News that a flight travelling from Calgary to Fort Chipewyan — to help evacuate residents of the area — experienced an “engine compressor stall upon take off, resulting in the crew performing an engine shut down due to an engine fire indication.”
WestJet confirmed that crews performed all standard safety procedures and were able to contain the fire due to their “comprehensive operating procedures and engine design.”
At the time of the incident there was no guest on board and “at no point was the safety of our crew at risk,” WestJet said.
According to a news release, two flight attendants and two flight crew were not injured after an engine failure and fire on a WestJet Encore plane.
The TSB said it will investigate the incident but didn’t provide any more details about what happened.
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