All the crew and passengers -- 165 people in all -- are safe after a China Airlines plane exploded Monday, shortly after landing At Okinawa, Japan. A fuel leak is suspected and Taiwan has grounded its fleet of Boeing 737-800s.Debbie Wu of the AP via the Guardian:
All 165 passengers and crew scrambled down emergency chutes or jumped from cockpit windows - some just seconds before the blast.So they all got out in time, and nobody even got hurt.
Passengers described a normal landing after Flight CI-120 landed on the resort island of Okinawa from the Taiwanese capital of Taipei. But as the jet came to a stop near the terminal, they said that the left engine began smoking, followed by the right one.
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When the smoke started billowing outside the plane, the cabin crew already was standing by the doors, said a passenger who gave his surname as Tsang and identified himself as a guide for Taipei's Southeast Tours.
"The passengers saw the smoke first and they began to yell and demand that the doors be opened," he said.
Debbie Wu has a lot more and there's more elsewhere of course, including this from the BBC:
The passengers - including two kids - and crew got off the plane using inflatable emergency slides.
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Police said terrorism was not suspected.