Now from abc 7 news, live breaking news. An emergency escape. Sfo bound passengers forced to leave everything behind and use slides to evacuate their plane. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Larry beil in for dan ashley. Im ama daetz. 131 people were on board the plane when a fire broke out. Happened as the plane was taxiing on the tarmac in new jersey. Abc 7 News Reporter tracking this. Reporter larry, those in the tower noticed flames coming from the planes engine. Thats when what many called controlled chaos erupted. Then, you know, the flight attendants were like get off the plane, get off the plane, get off the plane, run away from the plane. Reporter these were the words passengers remember hearing as they realized there was something very wrong with their plane, an engine on united flight 1579 was fire. The emergency chutes deployed and everyone on board slid to safety. Disbelief, right. Surprise. Ive flown over three million miles in my life, 87 countries and never had this
Now from abc 7 news, live breaking news. An emergency escape. Sfo bound passengers forced to leave everything behind and use slides to evacuate their plane. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Larry beil in for dan ashley. Im ama daetz. 131 people were on board the plane when a fire broke out. Happened as the plane was taxiing on the tarmac in new jersey. Abc 7 News Reporter tracking this. Reporter larry, those in the tower noticed flames coming from the planes engine. Thats when what many called controlled chaos erupted. Then, you know, the flight attendants were like get off the plane, get off the plane, get off the plane, run away from the plane. Reporter these were the words passengers remember hearing as they realized there was something very wrong with their plane, an engine on united flight 1579 was fire. The emergency chutes deployed and everyone on board slid to safety. Disbelief, right. Surprise. Ive flown over three million miles in my life, 87 countries and never had this
Came, from but police say the boy was not the intended target. If youre in this area, whether youre driving through or walking through or if youre at a property that has video surveillance, that can help us solve this crime. A soccer family is helping to raise money for the family with a go fund me page. If you want to help support the b isai and his family, you can go to nbc 7 website. Today Libyan Security forces detained the brother of concert bomber 22yearold salman abedi in tripoli. Today more raids were carried out across manchester and beyond. Authorities have now taken seven people into custody. I think its very clear that this is a network that we are investigating, and as i have said, it continues at a pace, theres extensive investigations going on and activity going on across Greater Manchester as we speak. Armed soldiers have been dispatched across the united kingdom. British Authorities Say they ha have taken a closer look at the bomb and have concluded that abedi had help
Their plane, an engine on united flight 1579 was fire. The emergency chutes deployed and everyone on board slid to safety. Disbelief, right. Surprise. Ive flown over three million miles in my life, 87 countries and never had this happen before. Reporter passengers took to social media to share their frightening experience. United airline meantime confirmed five people were hurt. A spokesperson said, quote, we have received early reports of an ankle injury. Customers have been transported back to the terminal. Everyone was safe. Good spirits, people sharing phones. Some people without their shoes. Everyone just got off the plane as fast as they could. Reporter in the last few hours passengers have been allowed the reboard the plane in groups of 10 to gather personal items they left behind. Airport officials expect flights in and out of newark to be delayed through the night. Lisa am lisa amin gulezian. Abc 7 news. We are getting first look at the man Police Believe was behind the suicid
With the details from oakland. Reporter we just received an update on the little boys condition, to a hospital spokesperson, were told he was improving, he was able to take a couple of steps, so those are great signs, but it will be some time before he makes a full recovery. These children are getting shot and its not just fair. Maria fletcher says shes had enough of the violence in the neighborhood. Just put the guns down. You know, these people are not going to get up and walk after they get shot. Theyre going to grieve, the parents are going to be hurt. Reporter the bring is in Childrens Hospital recovering from gunshot wounds. Its just disheartening to see crimes against our youth in our community because it impacts the trajectory of their future and ours. Reporter it happened in the fruit vail neighborhood. Its unclear what prompted the shooting or even where the shots came, from but police say the boy was not the intended target. If youre in this area, whether youre driving throu