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US: Video appears to show Spirit Airlines plane on fire on runway after safe landing in Atlanta  

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Video appears to show Spirit Airlines plane on fire on runway after safe landing

Watch: In US Spirit Plane Towed After Brakes Overheat, Ignite in ATLANTA 

ATLANTA — Passengers aboard a Spirit Airlines flight from Tampa are safe after one of the plane’s brakes overheated and briefly caught fire upon landing in Atlanta on Sunday, airport officials said.

The brakes in the landing gear of Spirit Airlines flight 383 from Tampa ignited upon landing, officials at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport wrote in a tweet about the incident. Atlanta firefighters put out the fire and the plane was towed to the gate for passengers to disembark, airport officials said.

Spirit Airline said one of the brakes on the plane overheated. No passengers were injured, the airline said.

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