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American Airlines plane catches fire at Denver airport gate. Passengers evacuated on slides

American Airlines Boeing 737 catches fire at Denver airport

Flight 1006, which was headed from the Colorado Springs Airport to Dallas Fort Worth, diverted to Denver and landed safely around 5:15 p.m. after the crew reported engine vibrations, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.

While taxiing to the gate, an engine on the Boeing 737-800 caught fire, the FAA added.

Photos and videos posted by news outlets showed passengers standing on a plane’s wing as smoke surrounded the aircraft. The FAA said passengers exited using the slides.

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They got the slide package? Lucky stiffs!

Boneing keeps delivering as expected.

The always trustworthy 737-800.
- The Burning 737-800

Someone at Boeing probably paid a lot of money for keeping them out of the headline..
#IfItsBoeingImNotGoing

So lucky it was already on the ground.
- Yeah, good on the pilots for doing an emergency landing

due to DOGE cuts?
- This is the American exceptionalism of cutting corners until the product is trash.
  
  The pre-Trump feds cutting the FAA's budget, then deciding the industry could regulate its own manufacturing tests didn't help either.
  It's that kind of failure of leadership that proves gov'ts are no longer there for the people ... only the big businesses with money.

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