Escape Chaos on Fiery American Airlines Jet Detailed by NTSB
- Panicked passengers, lack of communication in Oct. 28 accident
- Boeing 767 engine caught fire on Chicago runway before takeoff
Firefighters extinguish flames from American Airlines Flight which caught fire on a runway at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on Oct. 28, 2016.
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Panicked passengers on an American Airlines widebody aircraft in Chicago last October demanded to evacuate as a massive fire engulfed the right wing, and were blasted by exhaust from an engine that pilots hadn’t shut down.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board released more than 500 pages of investigative reports Thursday detailing how a metallurgical flaw led to a violent right engine failure, a fire that raged outside the plane, and the ensuing evacuation.