Passengers evacuated on the Orlando, Florida International Airport tarmac after a Delta Air Lines plane engine fire Monday morning.

Orlando International Airport (MCO) was the seventh-busiest airport in the United States in terms of passenger enplanements in 2023, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

A Southwest Airlines flight was stopped in Florida after the aircraft tried to take off from a taxiway instead of a runway in Orlando, officials said.

Delta Air Lines Flight 1213 was pushing back from the gate in Orlando when an engine caught fire, the FAA said.

Passengers aboard a Delta Air Lines flight evacuated on emergency slides onto the Orlando International Airport tarmac in Florida on Monday after an engine fire.

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