Passengers on board a Rex Airlines flight from Adelaide have caught the moment flames and smoke started billowing out of the engine just after takeoff was aborted.
The Saab 340 twin-turboprop was due to depart for Broken Hill shortly after 7 a.m. on Wednesday when a fault indicator signalled a problem with the left engine.
The engine was shut down, but unburnt fuel is understood to have caught fire inside the engine.
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A Rex Airlines flight from Adelaide was aborted after takeoff when an engine caught on fire. 7 News
Footage taken from inside the aircraft showed flames and smoke coming from the engine.
Passengers were forced to disembark the aircraft on the taxiway and were bused back to the terminal, while the plane was
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