A COMMERICAL plane has been evacuated after it caught fire moments before taking off.

The Delta jet was set to leave Orlando for Atlanta at around 11 am ET on Monday when flames and billows of black smoke started to come out of the engine.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told The U.S. Sun that the Delta flight “was pushing back from the gate for departure at Orlando International Airport around 11:15 a.m. local time on Monday, April 21, when an engine caught fire.”

They said that passengers evacuated the plane using emergency slides.

Orlando International Airport also released a statement about the engine fire, saying “Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting team promptly responded.”

The flight has been delayed for several hours, causing an inconvenience to passengers during a time when anxieties over flight safety are already at a high.

Travelers are now set to depart from Orlando at 5 pm ET and arrive in Atlanta at 6:46 pm ET.

Meanwhile, the FAA said they will investigate the engine fire.

The U.S. Sun has reached out to Delta for comment.

DELTA TORONTO FLIGHT CRASH

Delta has recently been in the spotlight after a flight flipped before bursting into flames after crash landing in Toronto in February.

Passengers coming from Minneapolis were forced to crawl along the ceiling of the plane cabin to flee the crash sight.

DEADLY PLANE CRASHES

Flight anxiety began to soar in late January when a Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines flight over Washington D.C., killing 67 people.

There have been several plane crashes that have made headlines since that horrific accident.

Most recently, four people died after a plane struck power lines and crashed into a road in Trilla, Illinois on Saturday.