Plane burns after takeoff mishap in Texas; no one badly hurt

BROOKSHIRE, Texas (AP) — A level taking passengers from Texas to the AL Championship Series crippled successful Boston burst into flames aft it ran disconnected a runway during takeoff Tuesday morning, but nary 1 was earnestly hurt, authorities said.

The McDonnell Douglas MD-87 was carrying 21 radical erstwhile it rolled done a obstruction and caught occurrence astatine the Houston Executive Airport successful Brookshire, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Everyone made it disconnected the level safely and the lone reported wounded was a rider with backmost pain, Waller County Judge Trey Duhon said connected Facebook. Duhon, who is the highest elected authoritative successful the county, told reporters that the radical was headed to spot Game 4 of the ALCS betwixt the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox connected Tuesday night.

Cheryl McCaskill, who lives successful the Houston suburb of Cypress, was aboard the plane. She told the Houston Chronicle that she felt “shaky and shocked” aft moving from the burning pitchy successful her Astros jersey.

“When it yet stopped, everyone went ‘get out, get out, get out.’ We jumped retired connected that inflatable happening and past everyone went ‘get away,’” McCaskill said.

The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board volition investigate.

NTSB spokesperson Keith Holloway said a squad of bureau investigators was expected successful Texas by Tuesday nighttime and that they would apt analyse the aircraft’s formation information recorder.

The craft is registered to a Houston-area concern firm.