# 'Terrifying and exhausting' - passengers share how they fled burning plane in Denver

**1 day ago**

Johanna Chisholm
BBC News

## Video
Watch: Passengers escape on wing of plane after jet fire

## Description
"Nerve-wrecking, terrifying and horrific."
That is how one witness described her experience getting off an American Airlines flight that caught fire after it was forced to make an emergency landing in Colorado.

Some of the 172 passengers travelling on the flight bound for Dallas were seen standing on the plane's wing after it touched down in Denver, with large plumes of smoke encircling around them.

Everyone on board, including six crew members, made it out of the plane alive, with 12 passengers treated at hospital for minor injuries, according to airport officials.

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