Airplane on fire caught on video

Yes the Fokker caught fire! Amazingly enough, that is a kind of plane.

1-2-2008 Tehran, Iran
An Iran Air plane carrying 100 passengers skidded off the runway after part of its wing caught fire on take-off from a Tehran airport. On take off in snowfall, the F-100 aircraft suffered a failure in the left engine. The F100 then ran off the side of the runway, caught fire, skidded onto the military ramp and came to near the right wing of a 747 belonging to the Iranian Air Force.

All on board were able to escape with no or minor injuries.
The aircraft was gutted by flames before airport fire service arrived.

while on the subject of airplane crashes and aviation disasters check out the compilation plane wreck video below.

Top 5 worst air disasters in history

These are the top 5 worst plane wrecks of all time.

#1? well you may have guessed this one.

#1 9/11 terrorist hijacking. The known casualty count is at almost 3000 people here that were killed either in the plane or on the ground – 2907 dead from known reports

Date:	September 11, 2001
Location:	New York, NY New York, NY Arlington, Virginia Shanksville, Pennsylvania
Aircraft:	Boeing 767-223ER Boeing B-767-222 Boeing B-757-223 Boeing B-757-222
Reg:	N334AA N612UA N644AA N591UA
Airline:	American Airlines United Airlines American Airlines United Airlines
Flight No:	11 175 77 93
Fatalities:	265 : 265 +2583

American Airlines, Flight 11, a Boeing 767, Boston to Los Angeles, hits the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11th.

United Airlines, Flight 175, a Boeing 767, on a scheduled flight from Boston to Los Angeles, crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York.

American Airlines, Flight 77, a Boeing 757, Washington D.C. to Los Angeles, moments after crashing into the Pentagon.

Wreckage of United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757, Newark to San Francisco, crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

#2 Pan Am B747 in 1977 Tenerife, Canary Islands – 583 dead

The remains of a Pan Am B747 (top) and KLM B747 (bottom) in Tenerife, Canary Islands in the second worst aviation disaster in history, which killed a total of 583 people. The KLM 747 collided with a Pan Am 747 after the captain of the KLM plane started his takeoff roll without clearance.

#3

Date:	August 12, 1985
Location:	Mt. Osutaka, near Ueno Village, Japan
Aircraft:	Boeing B-747-SR46
Reg:	JA8119
Airline:	Japan Air Lines
Flight No:	123
Fatalities:	524 : 520

The wreckage of a Japan Airlines Boeing 747 that crashed on Mt. Osutaka, Japan. Five-hundred twenty people out of 524 aboard were killed. Improper repairs by Boeing after a tail strike 7 years earlier, led to a rupture of the pressure bulkhead and loss of all controls.

#4

Date:	November 12, 1996
Location:	Near Charkhidadri, India
Aircraft:	Boeing B-747-168B / Ilyushin IL-76TD
Reg:	HZ-AIH / UN-76435
Airline:	Saudi Arabian Airlines / Kazastan Airlines
Flight No:	763 / 1907
Fatalities:	349 : 349

The remains of a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 after a midair collision with a Kazastan Airlines Ilyushin 76 over New Delhi, India resulting in the loss of 349 lives. Reports vary but a misunderstanding of directions between the ATC and the Ilyushin 76 plane seems to have led to the accident.

#5

Date:	March 03, 1974
Location:	Near Ermenonville, France
Aircraft:	McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10
Reg:	TC-JAV
Airline:	Turkish Airlines
Flight No:	981
Fatalities:	346 : 346

Not many pieces of wreckage larger than 3 feet long could be found after a Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed into a forest at a high rate of speed at Ermenonville, France. A defective latching mechanism on the cargo door caused it to fail in flight resulting in decompression and loss of all hydraulic control