Fire in aircraft engine forces emergency landing after possible bird strike: SEE

A dramatic video on Monday showed an airplane whose engine was on fire.

Virgin Australia Flight 148, en route from Queenstown, New Zealand, to Melbourne on June 17, made an emergency landing after its engine caught fire due to “a possible bird strike,” the airline said in a statement to PEOPLE.

The airline confirmed that rescue workers were on site and that it was not aware of any physical injuries to guests or crew.

According to Australian Broadcasting Corp., flames were seen coming from the Boeing 737-800 jet shortly after it took off from Queenstown Airport at 5:50 a.m. local time. The 67 passengers and six crew members had to be diverted to Invercargill Airport, where the plane landed safely.

ABC News spoke to a passenger on the flight named Michael Hayward, who said flames appeared to be coming from the plane’s engines shortly after takeoff.

“After 50 minutes of flight time to burn fuel and lose weight, the aircraft was diverted to Invercargill,” Hayward said.

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Darren Robinson, from Shotover Country in Queenstown, a bystander on the ground in New Zealand, filmed the plane and the flames. In the video he can be heard answering a child’s questions about what happened.

“Heard a loud bang and went outside to see a plane engine on fire,” he wrote in a caption on Facebook. “Hopefully they land safely.”