A passenger jet crash-landed at Miami Worldwide Airport Tuesday, inflicting a hearth and prompting three individuals to hunt medical consideration for minor accidents, officers mentioned.
The Pink Air flight from the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo, caught fireplace whereas touchdown, which was captured on video.
It had 126 individuals on board, however solely three individuals suffered accidents, which have been described as minor, the Miami-Dade Hearth Rescue Division mentioned.
“Hearth crews have positioned the fireplace underneath management and are mitigating gasoline spillage,” the division tweeted.
Miami Worldwide Airport mentioned the plane’s entrance touchdown gear collapsed, apparently inflicting the fireplace.
Cellphone video from contained in the cabin, obtained by NBC Miami, reveals individuals scrambling for the exits and speeding down inflatable slides.
Flight monitoring web site FlightAware recognized the plane as a twin-engine McDonnell Douglas MD-82. The 2-hour flight was 42 minutes late after taking off 36 minutes previous its scheduled departure time, the positioning studies.
It reported a touchdown time of 5:38 p.m.
The Federal Aviation Administration mentioned the touchdown concerned a “runway tour.” Its investigators have been anticipated to be on-scene Wednesday, it mentioned.
The crash touchdown prompted some flight delays Tuesday night time, the Miami airport mentioned.
