{"id":17869,"date":"2024-03-06T20:15:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T10:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/pacific-western-airlines-fiery-aborted-takeoff-1984\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T20:15:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T10:15:13","slug":"40-years-ago-pacific-western-airlines-flight-501s-fiery-aborted-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=17869","title":{"rendered":"40 Years Ago: Pacific Western Airlines Flight 501&#8217;s Fiery Aborted Takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month marks four decades since the occupants of Pacific Western Airlines flight 501 experienced a narrow escape from a burning jet. The flight, operated by a Boeing 737-200, stopped on a taxiway in Calgary after aborting its takeoff, with fire eventually consuming the aircraft. Thankfully, all of the service&#39;s occupants survived, although some were injured. Let&#39;s take a look back in time and examine the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft had 119 occupants onboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5802,396,5801,713,1554,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aborted-takeoff","category-aircraft","category-calgary","category-canada","category-fire","category-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17870,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869\/revisions\/17870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}