An American Airlines plane engine caught fire at Denver International Airport after the aircraft was diverted there Thursday evening, officials said, forcing passengers to deplane onto the aircraft’s wing as smoke enveloped the plane.

Passengers on an American Airlines flight were forced to flee the aircraft via the wing after an engine burst into flames. The American Airlines flight 1006 was travelling from Colorado Springs to Dallas Fort Worth when the crew suddenly began to feel “engine vibrations”,

An American flight to DFW made an unscheduled landing in Denver where an engine fire forced the evacuation of passengers onto a wing.