A plane carrying 126 passengers and 11 crew members caught fire after landing at Miami International Airport.
The plane crashed into a small building and a communications tower as it skidded across the tarmac before the fire broke out last night.
The plane had flown from the Dominican Republic. Three people were taken to hospital with minor injuries as a result of the incident.
The video showed black smoke rising from the plane, whose nose was destroyed
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The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane’s landing gear collapsed. The MD-82 airliner belonged to Red Air, a low-cost airline founded last year in the Dominican Republic.
“I thought I was going to die, in fact,” Paola Garcia told CBS Miami. “There was an old man by my side and I was hugging him. It was horrible.
“We were playing from side to side