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Hallie? >> reporter: good morning, jose. new this morning we learned the ntsb will send three investigators here to las vegas where the runway is back hope to try to figure out what went wrong, but passengers involved in this say they know what went right. a fast and orderly evacuation that helped save lives. on the tarmac, a terrifying scene. >> we have an aircraft on fire with people coming out of it. >> reporter: thick smoke swallowing a british airways plane on fire on the runway. as all 157 passengers, including letha dunn, evacuated, shooting down the escape chutes. >> behind us are gian...

Passengers, including letha dunn, evacuated, sliding down emergency chutes. >> as soon as they hit the tarmac, they just sprinted because behind us are giant flames. >> reporter: at the airport, planes grounded, people watching in shock. >> please be off the plane. this is insane. >> reporter: airport officials say the boeing 777 was taxiing for takeoff to london's gatwick airport just after 4:00 p.m. when the left engine caught fire. the emergency chutes deployed as crews raced toward the plane hosing it down. four minutes later the fire was out. >> we're standing at the top of that chute and...