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    VIDEO: Plane catches fire while making hard landing in Las Vegas

    By Linsey Lewis,

    2 hours ago

    LAS VEGAS ( KLAS ) — Flames and smoke were seen coming from a plane that made a hard landing at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on Saturday afternoon.

    Frontier Flight 1326 landed in Las Vegas around 3:40 p.m. after “the pilots detected smoke and declared an emergency,” a spokesperson for Frontier Airlines confirmed to CBS News.

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    The aircraft landed safely and all passengers and crew were evacuated. No injuries were reported and the passengers were bussed to the terminal.

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    The flight left San Diego at 1:51 p.m. and landed in Las Vegas at 3:37 p.m., according to Flight Aware.

    Video posted to social media showed flames and smoke billowing from underneath the plane as it landed at Reid Internation Airport. Fire crews were seen on the runway fighting the fire as smoke continued to fill the surrounding area.

    The cause of the fire is under investigation, the airline spokesperson said. According to the FAA, emergency crews extinguished a fire in the plane’s right engine.

    The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.

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