. >>> the answer for these long big what news anchor doesn't travel without his can of hair sproi. more in just a bit. 0 -- hair spray. >>> intense calls between pilots and air traffic control after a plane bursts into flames on the runway at chicago's airport. seven passengers and a flight attendant were hurt. tonight we're getting a look inside the plane. raging flames and black smoke poured from the plane as it burned on the runway here. >> the engine caught fire on the runway. >>reporter: inside the cabin, chaos as passengers went rushing toward the exits the plane became a death trap. >> we need to get oxygen. that was the scary part. >>reporter: panicked fliers running for their lives. >> oh, my god. >>reporter: american airlines flight 383 was rolling down the runway about to lift off for miami when a mechanical issue the right engine. >> this could have been absolutely devastated. >>reporter: all passengers and crew members on board evacuated the plane. the smoke was visible from blocks away. with the flames out, the wreckage was left behind. the metal skin on the plane's r