When crew members of a passenger plane reported sparks coming from an engine while taxiing at an airport in Southern China, eight fire trucks responded within minutes. Then they covered the wrong plane with white foam.

Chinese firefighters spray foam on the wrong plane.

Chinese firefighters spray foam on the wrong plane. Image by Aero Icarus / CC BY-SA 2.0

The airport said in a statement that the mistake at Fuzhou airport was quickly amended and the firefighters turned their attention to the correct plane – an Air China flight.

But the other one – a Fuzhou Airlines flight – was delayed for 10 hours and the incident delayed 30 flights. The airport apologised for the inconvenience.