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Are getting from a local affiliate in the area saying this was a scheduled departure of 12:30. again, we dont know the cause of the fire. it had been reported from another flight, another plane, that they had seen fuel leaking. one of the more compelling images is actually captured by a passenger on a different flight. he posted that to social media. i dont know if we can cue that back up for everybody, just to show them what he was looking at outside of his window. look at that. so these are wh...

Greg meyer is standing by to come over and join us. gregs with the airport as well. he can explain a little bit about dynamic air. why dont you come on this side of me. thank you. dynamic air which has been operating here at the airport for about 6 to 8 months. scheduled service but it operates different than most airlines because -- >> its a charter flight service. they dont work like a normal flight like a delta airlines or someone else here. they have flight schedules, but they have different...

Information on passengers. that flight was headed to venezuela. the faa will update the statement when there is new information. we will continue to update you here on msnbc both on the air and of course, online and on social media. just to recap, if you are just joining us, you are looking at pictures of a dynamic airways flight. we are told by the faa this was a flight that was to be leaving fort lauderdale hollywood international airport bound for venezuela, that on taxiing, had caught on fir...

While you were speaking just a second ago, but there was a passenger on another flight that happened to be on the runway that was waiting and we see from the images that they put up on social media via twitter the amount of smoke and concern obviously that everybody had when this erupted out of that engine on the left-hand side of this dynamic international aircraft. again -- >> yeah, thats a pretty dramatic picture. sure. >> we only saw one of those slides deployed from the front. what does tha...

First responders that are going away. another image coming in right now that shows again, this dramatic scene unfolding at the fort lauderdale hollywood international airport. earlier today, as this flight was taking off, bound for venezuela, the reports are that it had been seen leaking fuel before this fire began. again, we are seeing different vantage points of just the amount of smoke that erupted out of this engine fire. we are still waiting to get confirmation on the exact number of people...

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We dont have an exact number about how many people were on board except the fluid number that this plane could carry anywhere from about 180 people all the way up to 290 people. but we dont have exact details on the passenger flight list about how many passengers and crew members were on board. we also dont have specifics as of yet if anyone was injured or in need of medical assistance once they were able to get off this flight. but again, if you are just joining us, we are watching the images t...

Happened there. bob hager, long time nbc aviation correspondent, and expert, joins me now. bob, when you look at the damage and how we see where that blaze may have originated on this flight, what does that say to you and especially about in such an early state of the manifest here, about to take off? it was just taxiing? >> yeah. i heard you say a moment ago there was something about a fuel leak, another plane had seen a fuel leak, is that what you said? or what you heard? >> yeah. that there w...

Airline about passengers specifically. again, this flight was headed off to venezuela. bob, do you know what would the flight time be? would that roughly be about ten hours? >> boy, got me on that one. one thing i did think of, though, is how fortunate it is that whatever happened in this case, since hes on takeoff roll, apparently, happened before he got off the runway, because seeing that sort of damage there, if he had been in the liftoff phase, this really could have been catastrophic. >> yo...