Twenty passengers had to be hospitalized after an American Airlines plane burst into flames on the runway at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on Friday afternoon.
The horrifying scene was captured by one passenger who filmed the chaos inside the plane as everyone tried to get out of the burning aircraft.
American Airlines Flight 383 was departing for Miami and just seconds away from takeoff when there was a sudden explosion on the Boeing 767 plane.
‘Let’s go, let’s go,’ the passengers yelled as they tried to rush each other out of the plane, some of them hysterically screaming as others first tried to grab their bags.
The pilot aborted takeoff around 2.35pm and 161 passengers, nine crew members and a dog were forced to evacuate on the runway.
Hector Cardenas captured the terror of his fellow passengers, who were begging each other to leave the plane faster after it caught on fire.
'Please let us out too,' someone can be heard saying in the video as the passengers line up to go down the escape chute slides.
'F*****g go,' one man screams as another woman simply wails 'Please' as she tries to get to the exit faster.
Cardenas then goes down the slide and lets out a scream as the passengers begin falling on top of each other before reaching the tarmac.
'Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God,' Cardenas can be heard saying from behind the camera as he turns it on the plane, a massive cloud of black smoke filling the air.
Sarah Ahmed, one of the last people off the plane, said smoke began to seep into the passenger compartment and she could see flames up against the windows.
Cardenas showed the 'stampede' of people trying to get out of the plane, before letting out a scream on the escape chute as the passengers begin falling on top of each other
Ahmed said everyone in the plane immediately began to panic.
'It was chaos,' she told WLSTV. 'I thought it was the day I was going to die.'
'We were almost up in the air. We were full throttle, full speed ahead and then we heard this huge bang and there's fire at the window.'
Ahmed said everyone on the right side of the plane jumped up and ran to the left side.
The plane screeched to a stop and a 'stampede' of passengers immediately began to yell 'open the door, open the door!'.
'Everyone's screaming and jumping on top of each other to open the door,' she said.
Large plumes of black smoke filled the air as frantic passengers slide down escape chutes on the left side of the plane to escape
The pilot aborted takeoff around 2.35pm and 161 passengers and nine crew members were forced to evacuate on the runway
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