Plane catches fire while skidding down runway during rough landing in Canada [Video]

Chaos erupted at a Canadian airport after a plane experienced landing problems and went up in flames as it slide down the runway. Luckily, only minor injuries were reported.

Halifax Stanfield International Airport was shut down on Saturday night because an Air Canada flight from St. Johns caught on fire when its wheels did not properly deploy during landing, CBC reported. 

A passenger of Air Canada Flight 2259, which was operated by PAL Airlines, described the horrifying event.

Nikki Valentine told CBC: ‘The plane started to sit at about a 20-degree angle to the left and, as that happened, we heard a pretty loud – what almost sounded like a crash sound – as the wing of the plane started to skid along the pavement, along with what I presume was the engine.

‘The plane shook quite a bit and we started seeing fire on the left side of the plane and smoke …