Passenger jet catches fire while landing at Miami airport

Investigators were headed to Miami Wednesday after a passenger jet’s landing gear collapsed and it caught fire as it touched down at the US city’s international airport, authorities said.

Three people were hospitalised after the crash of Red Air Flight 203 late Tuesday, according to Miami-Dade fire officials, but no deaths or serious injuries have been reported among the 140 people on board.

Dramatic video footage showed people being evacuated from the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 aircraft, lying askew on the runway with its nose crumpled as thick black smoke billows from its body.

Red Air, a Dominican budget carrier which only launched in November last year, said the plane was arriving from Santo Domingo when it met with “technical difficulties.”