Plane in South Africa catches fire, no injuries
November 13, 2012  20:41
A chartered Boeing MD-82 airplane aborted its takeoff today in South Africa after its landing gear caught fire when a tire came off its mount, officials said. 

No one was injured. The Global Aviation Operations Ltd. flight was attempting to leave O.R. Tambo International Airport near Johannesburg when one of its pilots saw the landing gear on fire, said Unathi Batyashe-Fillis, a spokeswoman for the Airports Company South Africa. 

The pilot halted the takeoff and stopped the plane on one of the runways at South Africa's busiest airport, temporarily closing it. The flight's destination was the southern African nation of Malawi.
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