BA-brannen i Las Vegas for to år siden - Curt Lewis Video

NTSB releases video from British Airways fire in 2015


Dramatic video released Tuesday afternoon, more than two years after a plane caught fire on a runway.

It happened in Las Vegas in September 2015. The British Airways flight was bound for London.

But during takeoff, when the plane had reached about 90 miles per hour, a fire broke out.

You can see huge plumes of black smoke billowing from the plane.

From another angle, you can see the emergency chutes deploy, and passengers slide to safety.

Everyone got off the plane, with fourteen people having minor injuries, mainly from sliding down the chutes.

Airport firetrucks had the flames out within five minutes of the plane's mayday call.

The FAA later said the fire was caused by the failure of the left engine.

The plane was repaired and returned to service just this past March.