BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Feb. 10 (UPI) -- No injuries were reported when an airplane engine caught fire at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport as the plane was leaving a gate, the airport said.
The fire in one of two engines was extinguished after a few minutes Wednesday and the disabled Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 was towed back to the gate, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
Airport spokeswoman Melissa Scovronski said high fuel pressure was the initial cause of the incident. The fire burned itself after the pilot switched off the engine, she said, and service wasn't disrupted at the airport in Bloomington, a Twin Cities suburb.
The plane's only occupants, pilot and co-pilot, were flying the plane to New York so it could be used for a commercial flight, a Delta spokesman said.
