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Two firefighters have died after a plane crashed into a fire truck while taking off at Peru’s busiest airport.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Latam Airlines plane collided with the truck just before 15:30 (20:30 GMT) on Friday at Jorge Ch\u00e1vez International Airport in the capital, Lima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Video posted on social media shows the plane careering down the runway, catching fire and smoking as it ground to a halt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No passengers or flight crew were killed, the airline said on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A 31-year-old firefighter is in a critical condition, according to an executive director of the hospital agency EsSalud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peru’s Health Ministry added that 20 passengers are being treated for injuries – two of them are believed to be serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It remains unclear why the fire truck entered the runway while the plane was taking off, bound for the southern Peruvian city of Juliaca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During a news conference, Latam CEO Manuel Van Oordt said the flight had been cleared for take-off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We don’t know why [the fire truck] was there,” he said. “We didn’t ask for their services.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: Two firefighters have died after a plane crashed into a fire truck while taking off at Peru’s busiest airport. The Latam Airlines plane collided with the truck just before 15:30 (20:30 GMT) on Friday at Jorge Ch\u00e1vez International Airport in the capital, Lima. Video posted on social media shows the plane careering down the runway, catching fire and smoking as it ground to a halt. No passengers or flight crew were killed, the airline said on Twitter. A 31-year-old firefighter is in a critical condition, according to an executive director of the hospital agency EsSalud. Peru’s Health Ministry… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28614,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28612\/revisions\/28614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}