More than 340 passengers and 12 crew were evacuated from a Pakistan International Airlines flight today when it caught fire at Manchester airport.
The Boeing 777 from Toronto landed at Manchester at 9.03am for refuelling on its way to Karachi.
At 9.15am the left side of the main undercarriage caught fire and passengers and crew were rushed off the aircraft.
A small number of people suffered minor injuries and were treated at the scene.
A spokeswoman for Pakistan International Airlines said the flight had come from Karachi and was going on from Manchester to Toronto.
Manchester was the scene of one of the worst UK aviation disasters when a British Airtours plane caught fire in windy conditions on take off in August 1985, and more than 50 people died.
