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The engine fire. >> well, right, the british airways, this flight again was heading from vegas over to london. like a ten-hour flight, they are calling this a technical failure, and airport officials said it was an engine failure. we know it happened in the left engine. the flames never made it into the cabin. the question is whiant how this engine failed. thats what they want to pinpoint. >> 6:13 in the morning hallie jackson time. thank you for being with me from las vegas. were getting starte...

See in the spot shadow firefighters scrambling to put it out. fire officials say 14 people did get hurt but none seriously thankfully and most of the injuries came from people dropping down the emergency slides. trace gallagher, what is british airways saying? >> british air called it a technical issue when in reality it was a catastrophic engine failure and the captain acknowledged they needed to evacuate the plane. the airline said quoting here, our crew evacuated safely and the fire was quick...

And why the exact case is that its a possible engine failure. british air ways released a statement and saying that were looking after customers after a technical issue with the aircraft. boeing said that its aware and gathering more information. dan, with nbc news. hillary clinton is issuing a new apology for using a private e-mail account. late last night they wrote i should have used two e-mail addresses. one for personal and one for the state department. not doing so was a mistake, and i a...

The good news is that we have great records, we have great data as far as performance goes. but when there is a failure it is absolutely important to understand why. whether the miracle on the hudson with ingestion of geese into the engines or whether there is other things going on with respect to a contained or uncontained engine failure. they will want to understand that and they want to make sure they dont see this in other aircraft across the world. >> and a guardian writer on the plane wrot...

Passengers ran down the aisles pushing and shovings others out of the way. >> all of a sudden you heard a boom and it shook the plane. i thought it was a tire blown out. then the plane just stopped. >> i was one of the first people off. i jumped on the slide. the flames seemed to be twice the height of the aircraft. >> because everyone left everything they had on board, their money and clothes, many of them have nothing this morning but their lives. the pilot called it a scat catastrophic engine...

Federal investigators are headed to las vegas today to determine what caused a packed british airways plane to catch fire on an airport runway, triggering an emergency evacuation and sending 13 people to the hospital. it all happened at the mccarren international airport yesterday. the london boeing 777 was preparing for takeoff when the engine burst into flames. the pilot quickly aborted takeoff and ordered people to evacuate. they used the planes slides. hallie jackson has more. >> reporter: w...

258 passengers and 13 crew members on board. melody smith and kim jockals parents are on the first leg of a trip to hawaii. >> my mom and dad always had a big kickoff for summer. and so, we normally would have been with them. however, they had decided about six months before that they were going to hawaii. >> a few minutes before 3:00 p.m., the plane is cleared to taxi to runway 32 right. at 3:02 p.m., its cleared for takeoff. our investigative animations are about to turn you into an eyewitness...

Field and theres potential to hit children and young people. >> but an investigation by the national transportation safety board finds the crash could have easily been avoided. >> in this case, we obviously had a healthy live pilot to be able to talk to so thats where were going to center in on. >> the ntsb determines the reason for engine failure, pilot error. the pilot ran out of gas and didnt switch over to his reserve fuel tank. >> in the hospital, he came up and i thanked him for saving our...

The big concern is a drone my get sucked into a jet engine, causing engine failure and possibly a crash, which has happened with bird strikes. the most famous incident in january, 2009, when captain sully sullenberger was taking off and had a double bird strike and ditched his plane in the hudson river help says drones can be more dangerous. he says its, quote, not a matter of if it will happen. its a matter of when it will happen. the faa says flying too close to aircraft can bring fines of $25...

It, to start. and that usually is predicated on you going a lot faster. the airbus dual engine failure checklist assumes the engines have failed at cruising altitude. 30,000 feet would have given the pilots ample time to figure things out. hitting a flock of canada geese at just 3,000 feet, thats another story. what at this point is going through your mind? >> at this point im thinking, this cant be happening to me. >> if the engines werent producing thrust why wouldnt the plane have fallen from...