An American Airlines plane carrying 178 people caught fire on the tarmac after making an emergency landing at Denver ...

Dai and Kathleen Hawkins, in the centre and waving, were pictured as they boarded the plane on its outbound ... raced towards the runway to the scene of the crash and were among the first at ...

The fire occurred while the plane — a Boeing 737-800 — was taxiing to a gate, Denver International Airport ... fan out on the wings and run from the scene with fire under the plane’s tail.