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(KRON) -- Passengers were evacuated from an American Airlines formation astatine San Francisco International Airport connected Friday afternoon, KRON4 has confirmed. The level passengers evacuated from formation 2045 were destined for Miami.
San Francisco International Airport's Doug Yakel told KRON4 that the Miami-bound formation was backing from the gross erstwhile the unit reported fume successful the compartment astatine astir noon.
The craft was evacuated utilizing exigency slides, and the San Francisco Fire Department responded by extinguishing the smoke, the Federal Aviation Administration told KRON4.
Yakel said 3 passengers were injured. The San Francisco Fire Department said 1 idiosyncratic required aesculapian transportation. The origin of injuries was not mentioned. Yakel said the passengers were being transported backmost to the terminal arsenic of 1 p.m.
An eyewitness said they were evacuated due to the fact that fume was coming from the plane. Videos posted connected societal media amusement respective occurrence trucks, 2 exigency flight chutes, and paramedics surrounding the Miami-bound flight.
"There's a clump of truly angry, confused, and understandably frightened passengers present close now," the eyewitness who goes by @miyadavid connected X wrote.
KRON4 has not confirmed the root of the smoke, but a rider said an physics instrumentality caught fire, starring the compartment to capable with smoke. "It was hopeless until idiosyncratic opened the mediate doorway and we were capable to flight arsenic we were each blocked successful the hallway. Some radical somewhat injured," they said.
According to the American Airlines website, the Miami-bound formation had conscionable landed astatine SFO from Miami an hr earlier its archetypal planned departure astatine noon.
