Usa: Investigators had been headed to Miami Wednesday after a passenger jet’s touchdown gear collapsed and it caught hearth because it touched down on the US metropolis’s worldwide airport, forcing greater than 100 individuals to flee the burning and mangled plane.
Three individuals had been hospitalised after the crash of Purple Air Flight 203 late Tuesday, based on Miami-Dade hearth officers, however no deaths or severe accidents have been reported amongst these on board.
Dramatic video footage confirmed individuals being evacuated from the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 plane, mendacity askew on the runway with its nostril crumpled as thick black smoke billows from its physique.
Miami-Dade fire officials said three people were hospitalized following the crash of Red Air Flight 203 on Tuesday evening, but no fatalities or serious injuries were reported on board.
Red Air, a Dominican budgetist who launched in November last year, said the plane was flying from Santo Domingo when it encountered "technical difficulties".
"There was landing gear in front of the Red Air # 203 plane crash from Santo Domingo, which seems to have caused the fire," a statement from Miami International Airport said on Twitter.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the US government agency responsible for investigating civil aviation accidents, tweeted that their team would arrive in Miami on Wednesday.
Red Air said there were 130 passengers and 10 crew on board. A total of 126 people were on board the plane, a Miami Airport spokesman said. The cause of the intolerance was not immediately clear.
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