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A screengrab of the video showing the Tesla Model Y on fire. (Photo Courtesy: YouTube/Sons of Vancouver Distillery)Jamil Jutha was driving in his 2021 Tesla Model Y that he bought just eight months ago when he claims that the vehicle pushed an error notification and then powered downIANS Last Updated:May 24, 2022, 18:07 ISTFOLLOW US ON:Elon Musk-owned Tesla’s Model Y car allegedly catches fire after powering down while driving, and the driver claimed getting stuck inside the car and breaking the window to get out. The…

A Tibet Airline flight has caught fire after skidding off of the runway at China’s southwestern city of Chongqing. The plane is said to have 122 passengers on board when the incident happened. Fortunately, all passengers and crew were evacuated safely, as per the airline. This incident comes after recently a China Eastern Airline crash that killed all 132 passengers onboard.WATCH TIBET AIRLINE CRASH VIDEO:The Tibet Airline flight, carrying 113 passengers and nine crew, was headed from the southwestern city of Chongqing to…

Satheesh, the owner of the electric bike that is allegedly made by Okinawa (according to a report by the Deccan Herald), was riding from Zuzuvadi to Upkar Layout. He then observed fire coming from under the seat and immediately jumped out of the scooter, which was entirely damaged according to the police. The report mentioned the owner bought the scooter last year.The scooter in question is the i-Praise+ and is manufactured by Okinawa, an electric vehicle manufacturer. The reason behind the fire could be scorching…

An IndiGo Airlines flight getting ready for take-off. Image used for representation. (Photo: Manav Sinha/News18.com)IndiGo flight 6E 2037, flying the Dibrugarh-Delhi route, reported a passenger's phone catching fire mid-air which was extinguished by the crew membersPTI Last Updated:April 15, 2022, 11:09 ISTFOLLOW US ON:A passenger’s mobile phone caught fire mid-air on IndiGo’s Dibrugarh-Delhi flight on Thursday but the cabin crew doused it with the help of a fire extinguisher, said officials of aviation regulator DGCA.…

Electric two-wheeler manufacturer Okinawa Autotech on Monday said that the fire at its dealership in Tamil Nadu was due to an electric short-circuit in the building.Okinawa, which recalled 3,215 units of its ‘Praise Pro’ scooters on April 16, just before the dealership was engulfed in flames in Tamil Nadu, said in a statement shared with IANS that no EV scooter or battery fire started the incident.“The fire was due to an electric short-circuit in the panel wiring in the building. The dealership has also confirmed the…

Small launch firm Rocket Lab on Monday captured a falling rocket stage out of the air with a helicopter before dropping it in the ocean, appearing to achieve a partially successful test of the company's novel cost-savings approach to recovering used rockets for multiple mission to space.The demonstration, involving parachutes and a long cable hanging from a helicopter, sought to check off a key milestone for the Long Beach, California-based company as it ventures to slash the cost of sending things into space, an industry…

Image for representation purpose only. (Image Courtesy: Twitter)An electric scooter caught fire in Hosur on Saturday causing panic in the area. The owner, a supervisor at a private firm in Bengaluru, however, had a providential escape.PTI Last Updated:May 02, 2022, 18:25 ISTFOLLOW US ON:An electric scooter caught fire in Hosur, an industrial hub in Tamil Nadu’s Krishnagiri district, on Saturday causing panic in the area. The owner, a supervisor at a private firm in Bengaluru, however had a providential escape.Hosur…

Ever wondered how the Earth and the Moon would appear when seen from a Martian orbit? NASA has shared an image that showed them together in a single frame. The image was caught by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) when the Earth was 142 million kilometres from Mars. In the image, only the visible parts of the Earth and the Moon can be seen. While the Earth appeared in blue, the moon looked white against a dark, black canvas. The image was taken by MRO's High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera,…

A passenger's mobile phone caught fire mid-air on IndiGo's Dibrugarh-Delhi flight on Thursday but the cabin crew doused it with the help of a fire extinguisher, said officials of aviation regulator DGCA.There was no injury to any passenger or cabin crew member due to this incident, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) officials said.The flight 6E 2037 was heading to Delhi from Dibrugarh when a cabin crew member saw sparks and smoke emitting from a passenger's phone, officials noted.The fire was then…