Over 150 passengers on an American Airways flight at Denver Worldwide Airport have been evacuated onto the runway Saturday, July 26, after a what was referred to as a “touchdown gear incident” that injured one particular person and provoked a hearth, the US Federal Aviation Administration has reported.
The Boeing 737 MAX 8, sure for Miami with 173 passengers and 6 crew members, skilled a tire-related “upkeep challenge” seconds earlier than takeoff. Emergency personnel and the Denver Fireplace Division responded, evacuating passengers by way of a slide after a loud bang and flames have been reported. The hearth within the airplane’s brakes, which was attributable to blown tires, was extinguished by fireplace crews, and the plane was eliminated for inspection.
American Airways apologised to passengers and praised their crew’s professionalism. 5 passengers have been evaluated on-site, with one taken to the hospital for minor accidents. The incident, which occurred at round 2.45pm after a scheduled 1.12pm departure, delayed 240 flights, in accordance with FlightAware on X. A substitute flight to Miami was organized, and the FAA has launched an investigation.
Beleaguered Boeing at Denver airport suffers string of emergency evacuations
This evacuation follows different latest incidents at Denver, the world’s sixth-busiest airport. In March, passengers needed to evacuate a burning American Airways airplane after an engine caught fireplace, leaving many to have to leap a number of metres from a wing. In April, a United Airways airplane hit an animal throughout takeoff, inflicting an engine to burst into flames.
The string of Boeing incidents in 2025, together with the Denver runway evacuation, the Air India Flight 171 crash, and the Delta Boeing 767 engine fireplace, has intensified scrutiny on the producer’s security and high quality management processes.
Passengers described Saturday’s occasion as “traumatising.” Some passengers recounted listening to a loud bang, experiencing violent shaking, and seeing the airplane tilt left whereas the brakes utilized forcefully. Flames have been seen coming from beneath the airplane, inflicting panic among the many passengers. One passenger is reported to have screamed, “We’re all gonna die,” whereas one other resisted directions to stay seated, including to the chaos. The evacuation took 10 to fifteen minutes by way of the slide.
This incident adopted an in depth name Friday, July 25, when a privately owned Hawker Hunter jet crossed inside two miles of a Southwest Airways Boeing 737 at an analogous altitude.