Frontier Airlines plane lands while on fire at Las Vegas airport

A Frontier Airlines level landed portion connected fire Saturday astatine Las Vegas’ airport.

Flight 1326 from San Diego to Vegaswas approaching Harry Reid International Airport erstwhile the unit smelled fume and declared an emergency, according to Frontier.

The level sped down the runway with flames and smoke shooting retired from underneath it, startling videos posted connected societal media show.

Frontier formation 1326 from KSAN-KLAS conscionable caught occurrence connected landing astatine KLAS.

I caught it connected video arsenic it landed pic.twitter.com/KGt1Asx3rv

— Tyler (@TylerHerrick) October 5, 2024

However, each 190 passengers and 7 unit members escaped without injury. Everyone connected committee was evacuated by stairs connected the tarmac and bused to the terminal, Frontier said successful a statement. The region occurrence section responded instantly and doused the flames.

What caused the level to drawback occurrence remains nether investigation. The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are some probing the incident.

The level landed astir 4:15 p.m. section time, causing authorities to contented a ground halt astatine the engaged airdrome until astir 7 p.m., NBC News reported.

“Frontier Flight 1326 experienced a hard landing,” an airdrome spokesperson told CBS News.

The aircraft that caught occurrence was an Airbus A321, according to formation tracking information from FlightAware. Airbus planes person mostly remained retired of the spotlight successful caller years portion Boeing craft person experienced galore troubles.

However, past period Cathay Pacific grounded its full fleet of Airbus 350s aft an motor portion failed and the remainder of the planes were inspected.