it burst into flames all ten people got off. tom costello has more. >> reporter: moments of sheer terror. >> it is a passenger airplane. >> reporter: it happened just after 10:00 a.m., a private passenger plane fully engulfed in flames at houston's airport as executive teams converged on the scene. >> 21 people on board, there are multiple people on the plane. >> reporter: amazingly, everyone else scaped three crew members and 18 passengers. the youngest, a 10-year-old child. two people suffered minor injuries. >> they were stunned, they were very stunned. they did self-extricate. we can't tell you how they did that. >> reporter: authorities say the plane registered to a local executive firm was said to be headed to boston for the playoff game between the red sox and astros but the plane never got off the ground. >> that's when the airplane rolled down the runway, struck an actual fence and from there