The US airline plane, which carries 178 people, caught on the airport runway after landing at Denver International Airport on Thursday evening, forcing the passengers to evacuate by climbing the wing. Airport officials said that 12 passengers were transferred to the hospital with slight injuries.
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The fire started before 6 pm Mountains after the plane, which is the Boeing 737-800, which was transferred to the airport because of what appears to be a engine problem.
The American Airlines Flight 1006 had left from Colorado Springs and was heading to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport when “the crew reported the vibrations of the engine.”
“After landing and during a taxi to the gate, the engine caught fire and took off the plane using the slices,” the Federal Aviation Administration said.
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In a separate statement, US Airlines said that the plane witnessed a “engine -related case” after it landed and hit the gate.
The airline said that all 172 passengers and six crew have come out and “are being transferred to the station.”
The plane ended with the C38 portal at Concource C.
Multiple videos appear on social media, coming from the plane and people who are vaccinated by climbing the wing. Heavy smoke was seen coming from the plane during the chaotic scene.
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A airport official told CBS News that the fire was shortly extinguished.
A family member of a passenger news told CBS News Colorado that all luggage was transferred from the plane and that the passengers were reserved on a trip that was to leave Denver to Dallas at one in the morning local time. US Airways later confirmed that it is sending an alternative plane and crew to help customers continue in DFW.
“Once the plane landed, we smelled this strange burning plastic smell, then everyone started screaming and saying that there is a fire.
“We saw the plane … there was smoke everywhere.”
“It was a surreal. I am really grateful because this had happened on the ground because if this happened in the air, I do not think I am standing here telling you the story,” their mother, Ingrid Hibbets, told CBS News Colorado.
Robert Sumwalt, the former head of the National Transportation Council, said that responding to emergency situations on Thursday shows “the importance of good training pilots, a good training trainer, and the good training of airports, and rescue the airports trained well, firefighting staff and air traffic monitors, all of whom work together to ensure a safe result when something like this happens.”
Somwalt said that the FAA investigation is likely to focus on the accident on when and where the fire started.
“We have to understand exactly when this smoke started … I am not completely sure of a sudden cause, when they reached the gate, smoke began to fill the passenger cabin. I think this would be part of the investigation,” Sumwalt said.
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He contributed to this report.
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