San Diego flight catches fire during emergency landing in Las Vegas – NBC 7 San Diego

Aviation officials have launched an investigation after a flight from San Diego caught fire during an emergency landing in Las Vegas on Saturday afternoon.

Frontier Airlines Flight 1326 landed hard at Harry Reid International Airport, its scheduled arrival point, around 4:20 p.m. after the plane's pilots reported smoke in the cockpit, the airline said in a statement.

According to investigators, radio calls went out and tower officials said there was no communication with the pilot during the emergency landing.

Passengers told TODAY there was severe turbulence as the Airbus 321 approached the runway.

“We landed and it was so hard. I felt it through my body and she felt it too,” passenger Lucas Shook told TODAY. “And just a few seconds later I told her I think there’s a fire. And then I saw the flame. I thought: Yes, our plane is on fire.”

Video shared on social media shows flames coming from the plane upon arrival. When they stopped on the tarmac, firefighters extinguished the plane while passengers waited on board for nearly an hour without air conditioning, it said.

Passengers were evacuated via air stairs and taken to the terminal by buses. As passengers were evacuated, they said they saw a tire burst.

According to Frontier Airlines, no one was injured.

The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Agency are investigating the incident.