Air Canada plane narrowly avoids disaster as wing catches fire during landing

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An Air Canada passenger plane narrowly avoided disaster on Saturday night after its wing caught fire during a landing at Halifax airport.

The Halifax airport was temporarily closed after a plane arriving from St. John's experienced a problem landing, which saw the plane skid down the runway and part of it catch fire.

According to passenger Nikki Valentine, one of the plane's tires did not deploy properly upon landing.

"The plane started to sit at about a 20-degree angle to the left and, as that happened, we heard a pretty loud — what almost sounded like a crash sound — as the wing of the plane started to skid along the pavement, along with what I presume was the engine," she said.

Valentine said the plane then skidded down the runway for a "decent" distance as the pilots worked to stop the plane.

"The plane shook quite a bit and we started seeing fire on the left side of the plane and smoke started coming in the windows," she said.

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The Halifax airport was temporarily closed after a plane arriving from St. John's experienced a problem landing, which saw the plane skid down the run...

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