let s get to alina machado live at ft. lauderdale hollywood international airport. she has the latest. what do we know now. reporter: there are still a lot of questions surrounding this incident. the investigation into what went wrong here is still in the very early stages. what we do know this incident unfolded very quickly and that authorities say they re just thankful this did not turn into a disaster. terrifying video capturing flames and smoke shooting out of dynamic air flight 405, just before takeoff. passengers to forced to escape the burning plane down evacuation chutes. i heard a loud bang, turned around, saw the lights. saw flames, ran to the front of the aircraft. we just saw the fire. people started freaking out. screams and people crying and i didn t know how to react. now, ntsb investigators trying to determine why the boeing 767 s left engine began
now officials to speak about a plane fire. another plane behind the plane noticed a fuel leak. moments later the plane was on fire forcing those on board to escape. alina machida from fort lauderdale airport. we re having technical difficulties with her live shot. but she did prepare a taped story. terrifying video capturing flames and smoke shooting out of flight 405 just before takeoff. pangs forced to escape down evacuation chutes. i turned around, saw the lights, saw flames. ran to the front of the aircraft. we saw the
terrifying video capturing flames and smoke shooting out of dynamic air flight 405, just before takeoff. passengers to forced to escape the burning plane down evacuation chutes. i heard a loud bang, turned around, saw the lights. saw flames, ran to the front of the aircraft. we just saw the fire. people started freaking out. screams and people crying and i didn t know how to react. now, ntsb investigators trying to determine why the boeing 767 s left engine began leaking fuel just before takeoff. bursting into flames. a pilot trailing flight 405 was the first to spot trouble. dynamic out of the left engine it looks like it s leaking a lot of i don t know if it s fuel, but there s fluid leaking out of the left engine. reporter: moments later. engine on fire!
coming down the evacuation chutes. were you able on the video, we can t hear an explosion. we can t hear the moment of impact. could you hear it where you were? yes. you could. describe it to us if you will. what did it sound like? it wasn t an explosion by any means before the plane impacted. it was, you know, again, it was just it looked like a normal landing, you know, maneuver. but he was just coming in nose high. and then i seen the tail section of the plane strike the tarmac. and, you know, it struck and then bounced forward and then got a little bit of airborne and, you know, kind of flipped over and kind of came in to view with my camera and then there was an explosion as far as we weren t sure there was some like
exit slide to make his getaway. nbc s tom costello joins us with more. tom, i can t help but think of the johnny paycheck song take this job and shove it when i heard this. yeah. what a weird story. yeah. you know, there are so many ways could you go with this story. we can all use one of these evacuation chutes, i suppose, on some days. this was a guy who apparently had had just had enough. steven slater is his name, 38 years old, flight attendant for jetblue. according to all the reports and the police reports, what happened was the plane landed from pittsburgh over at jfk airport in new york and a passenger started to get up. some of them got up a little too early. when he walked up to one of the passengers, apparently to say please sit down, we are not ready to deboard yet to deplane, the passenger got rather upset with him. the luggage he was trying to take out of the overhead bin apparently hit the flight attendant in the head. the passenger then allegedly said some nasty t