A Logan City man has spoken about the terror of seeing a plane on fire, in the skies above his Browns Plains home.
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48 passengers were onboard the Nauru Airlines flight which got into difficulty at the weekend, after a “compressor Stall” incident.
The captain told those on board it can cause sparks or flames to appear due to the disruption of airflow through the engine.
The incident was witnessed by locals around Logan City with residents around Regents Park and Park Ridge describing the sight as “fireworks”
Browns Plains local “Joe” says he soon realised it was NOT a fireworks display.
“I assumed it was a plane because where the sound was coming from was moving with the plane and there was an orange light coming through it”.
It’s not the first air emergency for Narau Airlines 
According to AVHerald – In May 2020, A Nauru Airlines Boeing 737-300 was climbing out of Brisbane’s runway 19L when the crew reported they had gone through a flock of birds upon rotation. The aircraft stopped the climb at 10,000 feet. A runway inspection revealed 8 to 10 dead birds on the runway at about the location where the aircraft had rotated. The aircraft entered a hold at 10,000 feet to burn off fuel and returned to Brisbane for a safe landing on runway 19L about 70 minutes after departure.
The AVHerald also reports on an earlier incident in April 2018, A Nauru Airlines Boeing 737-300 freighter was climbing through FL320 out of Brisbane when the crew declared PAN PAN, PAN PAN, PAN PAN and advised they were performing a rapid descent due to problems with the cabin pressure.
ATC cleared the flight to descend to FL100. The crew stopped the descent at FL240, a few minutes climbed again but needed to stop the climb at FL270 again.
The aircraft descended to FL100, burned off fuel and returned to Brisbane for a safe landing about 2 hours after departure.
The aircraft remained on the ground for about 5 hours, then departed again but after take off, again was forced to stop the climb at FL320 due to another incident. The pilots initiated a rapid descent to FL100 and returned to Brisbane for another safe landing about 2 hours after departure.
