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Fifty years ago, a twin-engine turboprop plowed into 50 Edgewood Ave. The Mohawk Airlines...
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Fifty years ago, a twin-engine turboprop plowed into 50 Edgewood Ave. The Mohawk Airlines...
Are getting from a local affiliate in the area saying this was a scheduled departure of 12:30. again, we don't 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 don't 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 what passengers who were in line to take off were able to witness, just how frightening this was. he...
Greg meyer is standing by to come over and join us. greg's with the airport as well. he can explain a little bit about dynamic air. why don't 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 -- >> it's a charter flight service. they don't work like a normal flight like a delta airlines or someone else here. they have flight schedules, but they have different requirements and that type of thing. they've been here, as you said, six to eight months. they'...
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 fire. folks evacuated from that plane. you can see the emergency vehicles responding there on the tarma...
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, that's a pretty dramatic picture. sure. >> we only saw one of those slides deployed from the front. what does that say to you about why there wasn't that rear slide deployed? we don't know how many passengers wer...