'Heart was jumping out of my chest': Passengers look out window to see plane on fire

A mechanical responsibility caused a level motor to drawback occurrence just moments aft take-off, starring to operations astatine Adelaide Airport being temporarily unopen down.

The Rex Airlines formation connected nan runway and was bound for Broken Hill conscionable aft 7am erstwhile nan aviator braked and abandoned take-off.

Passengers past spotted flames coming from nan engine. 

"The level started to brake conscionable earlier we rotated, and I thought 'oh that's not good', and past personification started yelling retired 'fire, fire', and I thought 'oh that's not bully either'," rider Warwick Beverley said. 

Beverley and his fiancé Sandy Holmes were hopeless to caput location aft his emergency encephalon room to region a tumour successful Adelaide.

Today, they were near pinch "another communicative to tell". 

Passengers and unit were ushered disconnected nan aircraft, and a autobus picked them up from nan airdrome and took them backmost to nan terminal, wherever they were booked connected different flight.

The occurrence self-extinguished. 

"I'm gladsome it wasn't successful nan air," Holmes said. 

"I dislike flying anyhow truthful I had to really show myself I was connected nan riverbank because my bosom was jumping retired of my chest."

The business impacted operations crossed nan full airport, pinch nan runway closed for astir 30 minutes earlier reopening astir 8am. 

Rex Airlines claims a mini magnitude of unburnt substance ignited successful nan engine's exhaust, causing nan emergency. 

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating nan mechanical fault.

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