A United Airlines flight aborted takeoff after the plane engine caught fire while on the taxiway at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.
According to the FAA, United Flight 2091 en route to Seattle with 148 passengers and five crew members on board was stopped around 2 p.m.
Video showed clouds of black smoke coming from the wing of the Airbus A320.
Ground crews and emergency responders have issued the issued and the plane was towed to the gate where the passengers disembarked, it reported NBC Chicago.
United Flight 2091 aborted takeoff after the aircraft engine caught fire while on the taxiway at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport
Video showed clouds of black smoke coming from the wing of the Airbus A320
No injuries were reported and passengers were offered alternative travel arrangements, according to the airline.
The engine fire temporarily halted all arriving flights at Chicago airport.
All flights remained grounded at New York’s JFK on Monday – an event attributed to persistent thunderstorms seen across much of the US, the FAA said.
The travel chaos comes as citizens in Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee were all hit by a bevy of tornadoes, high winds and flooding over Memorial Day Weekend, which have killed at least 21 people so far.
According to FlightAware, at least 6,837 flights within, to or from the United States have been delayed and 516 have been cancelled.
