An airplane carrying 137 individuals crash landed at a Miami Airport prior to it break into flames.
The pilot was required to take incredibly elusive action after the airplane’s landing equipment stopped working.
Passengers reported ‘panic’ and ‘screaming all around’ throughout the occurrence, which occurred aboard a Red Air flight.
It had actually left from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic on Monday.
The airplane had actually been getting here into Miami Airport at 5.30 pm when catastrophe struck.
A little structure and an interactions tower at the terminal were both hit due to the force of the disorderly landing.
The aircraft ultimately came to rest near a grassy location by the side of the runway prior to thick smoke began to ripple from the left wing.
Three individuals were required to health center following the occurrence.
‘I thought I was going to die, actually,’ Paola Garcia informed CBS Miami. ‘There was an old man next to me and I was hugging him. It was horrible.’
‘We were bumping from side to side and all the windows like break and then everything’s fine.
‘Then the people start running and running and I like jump and start running because there was fire and all that.’
Red Air is a discount airline which was founded last year in the Dominican Republic.
The plane was carrying 126 passengers and 11 crew members when it was forced to crash land.
Footage from the incident shows black smoke billowing from a fire on the left wing of the aircraft.
Firefighters who were rushed to the scene used flame-retardant foam to extinguish the flames.
Some passengers could be heard screaming as they rushed to escape the still burning plane.
A spokesperson for Miami Airport said that flights were delayed due to the crash.
Miami-Dade County mayor Daniella Levine Cava has travelled to the scene this morning.
She tweeted: ‘A plane arriving at @iflyMIA from Santo Domingo, DR captured on fire following a landing equipment breakdown.
‘ I have actually simply shown up on the scene and am being informed by@MiamiDadeFire
.
‘Three passengers were transported to the hospital with minor injuries.’
The airplane was a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, it has actually been verified by authorities.
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