Now from abc 7 news, live breaking news. An emergency escape. Sfo bound passengers forced to leave everything behind and use slides to evacuate their plane. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Larry beil in for dan ashley. Im ama daetz. 131 people were on board the plane when a fire broke out. Happened as the plane was taxiing on the tarmac in new jersey. Abc 7 News Reporter tracking this. Reporter larry, those in the tower noticed flames coming from the planes engine. Thats when what many called controlled chaos erupted. Then, you know, the flight attendants were like get off the plane, get off the plane, get off the plane, run away from the plane. Reporter these were the words passengers remember hearing as they realized there was something very wrong with their plane, an engine on united flight 1579 was fire. The emergency chutes deployed and everyone on board slid to safety. Disbelief, right. Surprise. Ive flown over three million miles in my life, 87 countries and never had this
Now from abc 7 news, live breaking news. An emergency escape. Sfo bound passengers forced to leave everything behind and use slides to evacuate their plane. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Larry beil in for dan ashley. Im ama daetz. 131 people were on board the plane when a fire broke out. Happened as the plane was taxiing on the tarmac in new jersey. Abc 7 News Reporter tracking this. Reporter larry, those in the tower noticed flames coming from the planes engine. Thats when what many called controlled chaos erupted. Then, you know, the flight attendants were like get off the plane, get off the plane, get off the plane, run away from the plane. Reporter these were the words passengers remember hearing as they realized there was something very wrong with their plane, an engine on united flight 1579 was fire. The emergency chutes deployed and everyone on board slid to safety. Disbelief, right. Surprise. Ive flown over three million miles in my life, 87 countries and never had this
Their plane, an engine on united flight 1579 was fire. The emergency chutes deployed and everyone on board slid to safety. Disbelief, right. Surprise. Ive flown over three million miles in my life, 87 countries and never had this happen before. Reporter passengers took to social media to share their frightening experience. United airline meantime confirmed five people were hurt. A spokesperson said, quote, we have received early reports of an ankle injury. Customers have been transported back to the terminal. Everyone was safe. Good spirits, people sharing phones. Some people without their shoes. Everyone just got off the plane as fast as they could. Reporter in the last few hours passengers have been allowed the reboard the plane in groups of 10 to gather personal items they left behind. Airport officials expect flights in and out of newark to be delayed through the night. Lisa am lisa amin gulezian. Abc 7 news. We are getting first look at the man Police Believe was behind the suicid