Jetstar Airbus A330-200 Makes Emergency Landing

An Australian Jetstar Airbus 330-200 aircraft with 203 passengers and crew made an emergency landing on the island of Guam on Thursday after a cockpit fire broke out as the aircraft flew over the Pacific Ocean.

The Airbus A330-200 aircraft was flying from Japan to Australia late on Wednesday night when, four hours into the flight, smoke was seen in the cockpit and the right-hand cockpit window area caught fire. One of the pilots utilized an extinguisher while other conducted emergency diversion to Guam where the aircraft landed without incident. The plane touched down in the early hours of Thursday, June 11th, Australian time.All passengers and crew were safe and no one had been injured. The aircraft was only two years' old and would be held in Guam until the cause of the fire was established.

An Air France Airbus A330-200 jet, same model crashed at Atlantic Ocean on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris last week, killing all 228 people on board on May 31, 2009.