GRAPEVINE, Texas — No injuries were reported after a landing gear on a Spirit Airlines jet caught fire while landing at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
Airline spokeswoman Iraida Mendez says Spirit Flight 407 was arriving shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday from a three-hour flight from Orlando, Florida, when the wheel ignited. Airport fire units extinguished the fire quickly and passengers deplaned at the gate.
Mendez says the Airbus A-320 had 178 passengers on board.
The fire was the second incident to involve a flight arriving at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport on Thursday. An American Airlines flight was evacuated after smoke was detected in the cabin as the plane prepared to leave the airport.