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A flight was aborted at Brazil's Rio de Janeiro after a plane's engine burst into flames on the runway before take off..
A Brazilian low-cost airline, Gol Linhas Areas Inteligentes, aircraft suffered a breakdown after its engine caught fire on the runway moments before take off..
It incident took place on May 4 when the plane was readying for its internal flight from the Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro to Porto Alegre...
GOL reports that this Thursday, Flight G3 2040, operating the Rio de Janeiro to Porto Alegre route at 5.20 pm, had its take-off interrupted after a technical failure was detected in engine two," informed the airlines' spokesperson...
A spokesperson for aviation authority Infraero said, Operations at Santos Dumont Airport were suspended between 5:27 pm and 6:26 pm on 4 May due to debris left on the runway by an aircraft from the airline GOL, which encountered a problem during takeoff...
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