The passengers evacuate after the American Airlines aircraft begins on the asphalt of the Denver Fire Airport

An American Airlines aircraft with 178 people caught fire on the asphalt on Thursday evening at Denver International Airport and forced the passengers to evacuate on a wing. Airport officers said about three hours after the fire that 12 passengers were taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

The fire started shortly before 6 p.m. Mountain after the plane, a Boeing 737-800, which was redirected to the airport due to an apparently engine problem.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced CBS News in a statement that American Airlines Flight 1006 had left the Colorado Springs Airport and was bound after the international airport Dallas Fort Worth when the “crew reported engine vibrations”.

“After landing and during the roles to the gate, an engine caught fire and the passengers evacuated the plane with the foils,” said the FAA.

In a separate explanation, American Airlines said that the plane had experienced a “engine -related problem” after it had landed and punished for the gate.

The airline said that all 172 passengers and six crew members on board were relocated to exhausted and “moved to the terminal”.

The plane landed the park at Tor C38 in Concource C.

Several videos that come from the plane in the social media flames and evacuate people by climbing on a wing. During the chaotic scene, heavy smoke also came out of the plane.

An airport officer announced CBS News that the fire was soon deleted.

A family member of one of the passengers informed CBS News Colorado that the entire luggage was taken out of the plane and the passengers were rebooked for a flight to leave to Dallas on Friday at 1 a.m. American Airlines later confirmed that it sent a replacement aircraft and a replacement plane and a crew to help the customer continue to take part in the DFW.

A passenger, Gabrielle Hibbitts, told CBS News Colorado: “As soon as the plane landed, we ray this strange burning plastic smell and then everyone started screaming and saying that there was a fire.”

She said when she and her sister were a safe distance away: “We saw the plane … and there was smoke everywhere.”

Her mother, Ingrid Hibbitt, said to CBS News Colorado: “It was surreal. I said:” It will blow up. … what happens here? Will you get the fire out? “I am really grateful that this happened on site, because if this happened in the air, I don't think I would stand here and tell them the story.”

Robert Sumwalt, a former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said the emergency reaction on Thursday shows: “The importance of well-trained pilots, well-trained flight attendants, well-trained airport rescue and fire fighting staff who work together to achieve a safe result when something like this happens.”

Sumwalt said it was probably the FAA examination of the incident, when and where the fire started.

“We really have to understand exactly when this smoke started and … I'm not sure why suddenly when they came to the goal, the smoke filled the passenger cabin. I think that will be part of the investigation,” said Sumwalt.

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