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United Airlines flight 1382 to New York City was halted while
still on the runway shortly after 8:30 a.m. at George Bush
Intercontinental Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration
said in a statement.
There were no injuries and passengers were bused back to the
terminal, the FAA said.
The takeoff was stopped after the Airbus A319 “received an
indication about one engine,” the statement said.
KPRC-TV obtained a passenger's video of orange flames and smoke
spewing from the wing as it sped down the runway. A passenger
can be heard saying, “Please, please, get us out of here.”
The flight had 104 passengers and five crewmembers and was set
to travel to New York’s LaGuardia Airport, United Airlines said
in a statement.
“Passengers deplaned on the runway via a combination of slides
and stairs and were bused to the terminal,” the airline said.
“We lined up a different aircraft to take customers to their
destination at 2:00 p.m. CT.”
The FAA said it would investigate the incident.
Concerns about flight safety were high after two recent deadly
plane crashes this year. An American Airlines jet carrying 60
passengers and four crew members collided in midair in
Washington, D.C., with an Army helicopter carrying three
soldiers. There were no survivors. And in Philadelphia, a small
jet crashed in a busy neighborhood, killing seven people.
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