Video posted to social media showed passengers evacuating the aircraft using a slide as smoke and flames billowed from below the rear of the plane.

Passengers and crewmembers had to evacuate an American Airlines flight after the plane caught fire just before taking off from Denver on July 26.

A routine takeoff turned into a harrowing escape for passengers aboard an American Airlines flight in Denver, as a fire forced everyone to evacuate down emergency slides on the runway. The incident occurred Saturday afternoon,