New video shows moments when nose of Delta plane briefly catches fire at SEA Airport 

No fire extinguishers anywhere near the flightline? That's nuts!

90 seconds to deploy slides. Took 3 minutes & 30 seconds for all passengers to get off. Almost 6 minutes for fire trucks to arrive. This is the WORST response time I have ever witnessed. If this plane had caught fire very few people would have made it out alive.

6 mins for fire crew to arrive?! WTF

I am disappointed to see that response time

An absolute shambles of a response time.

looks like the Ground power unit plug in short circuiting

About 7min before any fire suppressant hit the fire area...That's is one lame airport and ground crew.

What a total embarrassment!!! All people running away not a single person takes a fire extinguisher out of their vehicles all driving away with aircraft full of defenseless passengers. 6 minutes before emergency arrived and parked on the wrong end of the airplane. Wild, wild west more like whole bunch of free range chickens, shame on all involved 🫣

Maybe its just me.....but the word "briefly" means 10 seconds or less

",,as you deplane via a slide, be SURE to take ALL your belonging with you!!" 4 minutes in and STILL clearing planes to taxi as passengers mill about,,what a cluster!!

Media be like "Boeing problems again" eventhough is a A321.

Fire bored to wait for the firefighters and was extinguished by it self!

Notice how they DON'T specify that it's an Airbus A321 NEO in the title. DETAILS ARE IMPORTANT!

Absolutely terrifying

Had this same issue on a DC10 years ago. I just ran up and grabbed the burning power cord and unplugged from the airplane. Problem solved in two seconds.

Airport firefighters response time supposed to be 2 minutes or less, where are they ?

No-one has a fire distinguisher ?

That was embarrassing, everyone was totally unprepared on the ground. The fire was out before the response got there!

Interesting that it took a few minutes before emergency exits were open. What were they waiting for? Then the fire dept shows up much later, pretty lights and shiny trucks. Did we disturb you?

This looks like an electrical fire at the plug socket. Likely a junky jet bridge plug which caught fire not the landing gear.

This is exactly how not to handle an emergency.

I had boarded a plane at Sea Tac waiting to take off to Sacramento CA and they announced a delay because the battery was dead 😮 It took all my positive thinking abilities to remain on the plane 😂

No flickering cabin, cockpit, and other lights (nav and logo are still on), I assume the APU is also on? Plane looks totally chill AF. Meanwhile, the GPU plug and cable glows brightly. That's quite electrical flame that's notoriously difficult to put down. I really like how there is that one ramp agent casually standing there watching (hopefully also frantically calling fire team on his HT), while a slide is deploying. You can put on Yakety Sax, which plays approximately as long as the fire response. What happened to those all-kinds-of-fire kind of fire extinguisher they wheeled along when pushingback an airplane? I thought every parking stand / gate bound to have one. Otherwise, I understood that all those live engines from that Delta Airbus completing its pushback behind this plane on fire, and that arriving Alaska 737 traffic might complicate emergency responder access. But the ramp should have all the equipment to deal with this kind of situation, since we are increasingly using GPUs to reduce emission.

Serious questions need answering on the response for this fire. Crazy delays and well outside required minimum response times for international airports. Shocking. Thankfully it appears everyone made it out safely.

nobody doing nothing........so very strange

Looks like unorganized chaos. Where is the fire bottle that should be at the nose of the airplane? Why are the passengers allowed to run around in all different directions without anyone to show them where to go? What a laugh.. All for a shorting out electric cord plugging into the plane. Shutting off power to the cord would have been a good first call. NOPE not even that..

The media is going to blame Boeing lol smh, I’m happy that everyone is safe.

Crew working must be professional

911: "911 whats your emergency?" Passenger: "The plane is on fire!" 911: "Please hold."

I still have the best luck with service and being on time with Delta.

The passengers scramble, the gate/aircraft crew are not excited because they have worked Delta gates before.

Is there some reason the fire dept didn’t pull the apparatus up to near the seat of the fire? Rookies.

Electrical fire. If ramper would have used their fire bottle they would have gotten fried. And without killing the electrical source even a “dry bottle” wouldnt work. But why did it take so long to get the fire trucks there, thats concerning. First thing we learn in training though is no evacuation ever goes smoothly because passengers are involved.

The ground crew didn’t even notice that the aircraft was on fire

Flight ops should have seen this and reacted immediately. Were they out to lunch?

Very, very slow response, could have been catastrophic.

The pilots: seems a bit toasty in here..

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9:38:42PM Fire starts 9:40:02PM First slide deployed 9:40:32PM People start exiting through emergency exits 9:42:19PM Last evacuating person walks away from the plane 9:42:39PM Fire appears to go out 9:43:49PM First vehicle with flashing lights arrives 9:44:26PM First fire truck arrives

I swear, the ground crew are walking around like nothing’s happening. And WHY did it take so long for the fire trucks to get there and when they did stationed way too far from fire. Ground crew did nothing to direct them.

Lol, the fire eventually put itself out. It got tired of waiting for the firefighters. 😂😂 "EMBARRASSING!"

4 minutes later the fire got bored and went out!

Ok fire is out everyone back on board!

I’m curious, how long did it take for fire responders to arrive?

Can be used as a training video for what not to do!!!!

5 minutes and NO fire trucks ....way to go SEA.

3.30 seconds before anyone attempted to tackle or isolate! This airport isn’t fit to operate passenger aircraft!

Everyone blaming the ground crew personnel should know what they talking about before blaming the ground crew! There’s a fault ground service power cord which went up in flames which is AN ELECTRICAL FIRE ! There are different classes of extinguishers around all airports but you should identify the source before you hurt yourself in the process ! This is how you are trained in each airport

Meanwhile they just leave all the passengers onboard...

Appears to be an electrical fire.

it is battery compartment to power pilot cabin instruments.

electric fire

Is that another Bumming I meant Boeing?

Luckily planes don't run on gasoline. That'd be bad.

bad procedures, little or no training, bad behavoure from ground crew.

Very embarrassing

Guys, I cannot believe its another scary Boeing incident...........................................................................(Yall, I know its an A321NEO and just pointing out how whenever Boeing has issues no matter how small BOEING is in headline, but this isn't lol)

Look at all the idiots bringing their bags with them

So many people carry their luggage.

This is an Airbus problem

A fire that put itself out because everyone around it took too long to do it, lol this has got to be a joke. Worst emergency response ever! No one on the ground seemed to have a sense of urgency at all...

AIRBUS AIRBUS AIRBUS

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Lets not forget all the STUPID MORONIC Passengers who just have to stand around with their cell phones out. A flight line is a very dangerous place even not in a emergency.

I remember taking a tour of the airport fire fighting team and facilities back in the 80s, as a cub scout, I remember then saying they had to train to get to a fire in 2 minutes because that was how long a cabin could hold up against a fire. Oh well, so much for that. No one gives a crap anymore. They so act like the shop pilot were from Galaxy quest. I had a fire Saturday in my dad's car One time, hooking up a CB, lol, two wires crossed, instant fire, yanked the wires out, put out the fire, moved on. Tell my dad, he'll no ,lol. Common sense people. Call the fire team, try to Yank it the wire, CO2 fire extinguisher of you have it, even better, there had to be an emergency shut off switch. It's a freaking short circuit, it happens. My freaking god, it's kind Idiocracy. We are all so freaking doomed.

Probably firetrucks were electric and the charging was not complete when fire broke up :)

CHAPEAU AUX POMPIERS 6 MINUTES POUR ARRIVER

3:39 😂😂😂 what a clown show. Embarrassing delta

The fire department was obviously in bed or baking cookies at the station. Good to know that on one single ramoer had access to a fire extinguished or just didnt care

Let me guess, not enough diversity in the maintenance or manufacture of the aircraft is the cause of the fire.

Airbus, Boeing... the plane makers change... but the blacks working around them stay the same... humm...