Plane at Florida airport catches fire on runway

RT
Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:23 UTC

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An airplane has caught fire at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood international airport in Florida.

All the passengers appear to have been safely evacuated to the terminal building, as emergency crews battled flames on the port-side engine of the Dynamic Airways Boeing 767-200, with the registration N251MY.

There was huge smoke from this plane. Think engine caught on #fire at #fortlauderdale #airport pic.twitter.com/gS8bUki5ng

— kevin  iombie (@iombie) October 29, 2015

BREAKING A plane is on fire at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International airport https://t.co/FcUTJ7UoKQ pic.twitter.com/NwW9y0lI95

— AirLive.net (@airlivenet) October 29, 2015

The plane appears to have been bound for Caracas, Venezuela.

Plane caught on fire at #FLL! pic.twitter.com/61o6jvrEAY

— Mike Dupuy (@mikejdupuy) October 29, 2015

Dynamic is a privately owned US carrier based in North Carolina. The company has five Boeing 767s in its fleet, and offers flights to Guyana from JFK International Airport in New York and to Maracaibo and Caracas in Venezuela from Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood in Florida. The service to Caracas began in July 2015.