Terrified passengers aboard a Spirit Airlines flight from Tampa are safe after one of the plane’s brakes overheated and briefly caught fire upon landing in Atlanta on Sunday, causing chaos onboard, video circulating on social media shows.
The brakes in the landing gear of Spirit Airlines flight 383 from Tampa ignited upon landing, officials at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport wrote in a tweet about the incident.
Atlanta firefighters put out the fire and the plane was towed to the gate for panicking passengers to disembark, airport officials said.
Spirit Airlines said one of the brakes on the plane overheated.
No passengers were injured and no deaths were reported, the airline publicly shared.
