An investigation was under way today after an engine on a Ryanair passenger plane caught fire shortly after landing.
Over 100 passengers escaped the jet on inflatable slides after the incident at Stansted airport in Essex yesterday.
Airport firefighters put out the blaze before it spread and two people needed hospital treatment for minor injuries, a Ryanair spokeswoman said.
The fire, in engine two, happened after the Boeing 737-800 was delayed for more than an hour in Dublin when a plastic bag was caught in the other engine, she said. That engine was not the one at the centre of the fire scare, the spokeswoman said.
Ryanair said the Boeing 737-800 jet was carrying 117 passengers and a crew of six.
Many of the passengers were last night put up in hotels in Cambridge before flying on today.
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