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A British Airways plane has burst into flames on the runway at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.

All 159 passengers and 13 crew have been removed from the plane. Two people are understood to have suffered minor injuries.

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theguardian

British Airways plane fire: reporter describes panic on Las Vegas flight 2276

Guardian sports reporter Jacob Steinberg was on board the Boeing 777 and here he describes the rush to evacuate a burning plane

We boarded around 3.30pm, Vegas time, and I immediately fell asleep because I’ve been here for about five or six days.

I heard we’d been taxiing for quite a while. I wasn’t very conscious of the plane taking off – and then very quickly it shuddered to a halt.

It was going fast, it wasn’t meandering, it was about to take off, so it was going quickly.

A few people started running down the plane from the back, a few people stood up, and the staff were all saying, “Keep seated,” reassuring people. But I don’t think they’d realised what was happening.

Me and my friend kept trying to see the wing, but we were on the right side of the plane. But you could smell the smoke from the outside, you could see it. I heard later that a couple of windows had melted.

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‏@BBCBreaking

British Airways plane catches fire at Las Vegas airport, forcing evacuation of passengers; 2 minor injuries reported