A COMMERICAL plane has been evacuated after it caught fire moments before taking off.
The Delta jet was set to leave Orlando for Atlanta at around 11 am ET on Monday when flames and billows of black smoke started to come out of the engine.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told The U.S. Sun that the Delta flight “was pushing back from the gate for departure at Orlando International Airport around 11:15 a.m. local time on Monday, April 21, when an engine caught fire.”
They said that passengers evacuated the plane using emergency slides.
The flight has been delayed for several hours, causing an inconvenience to passengers during a time when anxieties over flight safety are already at a high.
Travelers are now set to depart from Orlando at 5 pm ET and arrive in Atlanta at 6:46 pm ET.
Meanwhile, the FAA said they will investigate the engine fire.
DEADLY PLANE CRASHES
Flight anxiety began to soar in late January when a Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines flight over Washington D.C., killing 67 people.
There have been several plane crashes that have made headlines since that horrific accident.
Most recently, four people died after a plane struck power lines and crashed into a road in Trilla, Illinois on Saturday.
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