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This is a boeing 767. it is a big plane. could have been around 180 passengers. it must have been extremely frightening for them. we talked about that incident in las vegas. there were injured, not because the plane caught fire, but because of the passengers going down the chute. the way they land that could cause injuries. we're still waiting to learn more about that. no doubt about it, this is a big plane with a lot of fuel. the big question now of course is how did this happen, why did this happen. was something missed that led to this fire occurring. >> now, i know these pictures that we'r...

Are under control albeit a lot of unanswered questions. you're seeing some of the tape we've been able to get in. of that aircraft. i mean, maybe it's just because i don't know, but i have not heard of dynamic airways before. we know obviously it's based out of greensboro. do you know anything more about this airline? >> it's a good question. because i have been, myself, trying to find out more about it. and we -- from what we've learned just by going to the website, it is a worldwide airline. that goes, as we know, to various countries, including venezuela. it is based in greensboro, knock kn...

>> well, we're learning, kate, accord to the faa, that a plane behind this boeing 767 reported that there appeared to be fuel leaking from the plane. moments later it caught fire on the runway. according to wsbn in ft. lauderdale. there appears to be a fire in the plane's left engine. immediately, passengers were evacuated down the chute. of course, we don't know accord according to the faa, if there are any injuries, but it appeared everyone made it off the plane safely according to wsbn. it was leaving from fo ft. lauderdale on its way to venezuela before this happened. before it caught fire...

Welcome back to our viewers. we're continuing to follow the breaking news. a jet lit up in flames essentially. left engine in flames as it was taxiing down the runway in ft. lauderdale, florida. we've got a lot of details coming in. here's the latest that's coming in to cnn. at 12:45 is when this aircraft started taxiing. an aircraft that was behind this boeing 767 reported that fuel was leaking from the aircraft just before the fire started. the passengers you saw in one of these shots, you saw the slide had been deployed. passengers were evacuated on to the taxi way. a lot more information s...

Situation. >> dynamic airways started just five years ago in greensboro, north carolina and only goes to two international decembstinati from the u.s. the fleet consists only of boeing 767s. the plane that caught fire was 29 years old. it was a similar scene in las vegas last month when a british airways planes caught fire on the runway. 13 of the 159 passengers were taken to the hospital, mainly from going down the plane slides. in total, 101 passengers were on board this flight. the ntsb is sending a four-person crew to investigate what happened and boeing offered to help with the investigat...