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Doors in general you won't open a door into the fire or into that fuel, but i will say that some of the challenges for folks that can't see things and if this fire developed and smoke developed, circumstances may have changed. you want to get the passengers off on the side that's the safest but perhaps they couldn't see what they couldn't see at the time before it developed, but the good news is, the evacuation worked. you had good crew resource management with other pilots conveying information about the leaking fluids coming out of the engine and so all of this is really important. this is a...

Joining us. mike with the broward county fire and rescue squad. let's get some more now with our aviation analyst miles o'brien is joining us, the former managing director of the national transportation safety board joining us. miles, the pilot in the plane that was taxiing behind this 767 saw this fuel leaking, radioed in and then within a few minutes we saw what happened. how unusual is this? >> it's relatively unusual, but engines do fail. you know, what the sequence of events is is very important. that's what investigators will be looking at. did it begin with a fuel leak? and did that lea...

I have a lifetime of experience. so i know how important that is. we're continuing to follow breaking news out of fo ft. lauderdale, florida. a 767, part of the plane leaking fuel, and then the left engine going on fire at one point. we have some images of just how big the billowing black smoke was coming out of this plane. a lot of details still not coming in. not yet confirmed how many passengers were on the plane. just look at that one picture that we received in of what this plane was dealing with at that moment. they're continuing to try to deal with that plane and ntsb,

Began or if it began with a fuel spill. we're talking about something around the engine and does not reflect on the boeing 767 which is a safe workhorse. >> the reputation is a very good reputation but it was 29 years old, this particular 767, this boeing 767 that sounds like it's an old plane. >> if regular maintenance was done, they tear the planes down on what they call major checks, the c check and d check. this plane, there is probably very few parts of the plane that are 29 years old, except fperhas the actual frame. they redo it from the ground up. the plane could be a new plane. >> we'...

We're talking about dynamic airlines flight 405. this flight was scheduled to take off from fort lauderdale airport at 12:30 this afternoon and headed to venezuela. the plane caught fire while taxiing for departure and there are reports that the plane was leaking fuel just before this fire started. we have also learned a little more about this boeing 767. it was built in 1986 and this is a relatively new route for this airline. in june the airline announced it was starting to offer nonstop service between fort lauderdale and venezuela. they have reached out to the airline, which is based in gr...